1st Edition

Remarks and Inventions Skeptical Essays about Kinship

By Rodney Needham Copyright 2004
192 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This volume scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional approaches and criteria. Exploring analysis and method in the disparity between relative age and kinship categories as means of social classification, the book makes theoretical readjustments, largely... Read more
1. Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage 2. Age, Category, and Descent 3. Surmise, Discovery, and Rhetoric

Biography

Rodney Needham