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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New York :
Berghahn Books
2021.
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| Online dostop: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv31xf4t0 |
Kazalo:
- 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.