1st Edition

Rethinking Marriage and Kinship

Edited By Rodney Needham Copyright 2004
    396 Pages
    by Routledge

    396 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background.
    The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology.
    Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: Burma, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia, Africa and South America.

    intro: Introduction; 1: Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage; 2: Meanings of Kinship; 3: Marriage: A Reassessment; 4: More about ‘Mama’ and ‘Papa’; 5: A Question of Preferences The Iatmul Case; 6: Marriage and Exchange in the Sepik; 7: Some Problems concerning the Wik-mungkan; 8: Some Kaguru Notions about Incest and Other Sexual Prohibitions; 9: Purum Descent Groups Some Vagaries of Method; 10: Sister's Child as Plant

    Biography

    Rodney Needham