Kinship in action : self and group / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
- Author
- Strathern, Andrew
- Published
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall/Pearson, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Physical Description
- xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Stewart, Pamela J.
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Early Studies -- The Revival of Kinship Studies -- What is Kinship? -- Mobilizing Kin -- Family -- Marriage -- The Fair Maid of Perth -- Conclusion -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- Chapter 2. Life Cycles -- Life Cycle and Family: Basic Concepts -- Marking Birth and Making Identities -- Names and Namings -- Maturation -- Conclusion -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- Chapter 3. Concepts in Reproduction -- Birth and Social Reproduction -- Trobriand Concepts of Reproduction -- Ideas of Reproduction and Social Structure -- Legal Contexts -- New Reproductive Technology -- Adoption -- Conclusions -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Groups -- The Scottish Clan: A Complex Case -- Cognatic Groups among the Duna -- Clanship and Exchange: Other Cases from the New Guinea Highlands -- Self, Group, and Personhood -- Other Cases, Other Types -- Matriliny among the Tolai -- Other Cases, Other Types -- Bilateral Kindreds among the Iban -- Conclusions -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 5. Structures of Marriage -- Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea -- Huaulu, Eastern Indonesia -- The Business of Marriage in Telefomin -- Ruth Craig's Early Account of Telefomin Marriage -- Exchange Relations and Intergenerational Continuity: Wiru and Duna -- The Category of "Polyandry" -- Marriage, Filiation, and Descent: The Na People of China -- Cousin Marriage Systems -- Conclusions -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 6. Euro-American Kinship: Concepts and History -- "The Family" -- Historical Factors: Households, Property, and Inheritance -- Influences of the Church -- Contemporary Cases: David Schneider on American Kinship -- Conclusions -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 7. Euro-American Kinship: A Diversity of Examples -- Appalachian Valley, United States -- Newcastle, Australia -- Tory Island, Ireland -- The Sarakatsani, Greece -- Conclusions -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 8. Conclusions: Issues of Change and Continuity -- Robin Fox: Reproduction and Succession -- A Continuum of Themes: From Reproductive Technology to Lesbian Motherhood -- A. F. Robertson: Beyond the Family -- Reissuing and Reframing Definitions: Ideology and Practice -- Relatives and Relatedness: Substance as a Key -- Filiation, Affiliation, Sociality: Reworking Pacific Models of Kinship -- Conclusion -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1. Kinship Terminologies -- Appendix 2. Incest and Exogamy: Sex Is Good to Prohibit -- Appendix 3. Further Readings.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780131844841 (alk. paper)
0131844849 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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