Partible paternity and anthropological theory [electronic resource] : the construction of an ethnographic fantasy / Warren Shapiro
- Author
- Shapiro, Warren
- Published
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.
- Physical Description
- ix, 67 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Contents
- Three primitivist projects -- The grand claims of Beckerman and Valentine -- The northwest Amazon cases -- Other pertinent cases : general considerations -- Evidence re focality in kin classification simpliciter -- Evidence re focality in kin classification stemming from partible paternity -- Evidence re the residential and symbolic isolation of the sexually bonded pair and dependent offspring -- Evidence re sexual jealousy -- Evidence re the denigration of women -- Miscellaneous evidence -- Conclusion.
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- ISBN
- 9780761845324 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0761845321 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780761845331 (eISBN)
076184533X (eISBN) - Note
- "Portions of this book were read at a kinship symposium in memory of Per Hage at the American Anthropological association meetings in 2006"--P. ix.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-67).
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