Us, relatives : scaling and plural life in a forager world /

"Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals' horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bird-David, Nurit, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2017]
coleção:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 12.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1k85cnd
Sumário:
  • Cover; Us, Relatives; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; PROLOGUE: ONE OF US; INTRODUCTION: SCALAR BLINDNESS AND FORAGER WORLDS; Downscale 1. Maps of Home; 1. AT HOME: SETTING AND MIND SETTING; Downscale 2. Census of Relatives; 2. LIVING PLURALLY: MOBILITY AND VISITING; Downscale 3. Tree of Relatives; 3. THE SIB MATRIX: DYADIC AND SEQUENTIAL LOGIC; 4. COUPLES AND CHILDREN: GENDER, CAREGIVING, AND FORAGING TOGETHER; Downscale 4. Taxonomy of Nonhuman Relatives; 5. NONHUMAN KIN: UNISPECIES SOCIETIES AND PLURAL COMMUNITIES; Downscale 5. Family and Ethnonym.
  • 6. A CONTINUUM OF RELATIVES: OTHERING AND US-ING7. THE STATE'S FORAGERS: THE SCALE OF MULTICULTURALISM; EPILOGUE: PLURIPRESENT AND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index.