How kinship systems change : on the dialectics of practice and classification /

"Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linkin...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Parkin, Robert, 1950- (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: New York : Berghahn Books 2021.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv31xf4t0
Aurkibidea:
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Terminological change
  • Kinship as classification : towards a paradigm of change
  • Terminology and alliance in India : tribal systems and the North-South problem
  • From Tetradic society to dispersed alliance
  • Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage?
  • Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia
  • Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe : trajectories of change
  • Part II. Crow-Omaha
  • On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologies
  • Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problem
  • The evolution of kinship terminologies : non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in Indonesia
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Appendix
  • Publications on kinship by Robert Parkin.