Joan Bestard-Camps

What's in a Relative

Household and Family in Formentera

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, this book demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective.

Produktdetails

• Explorations in Anthropology
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780854965861
• ISBN-10: 0854965866
• Artikelnr.: 22247612

Autorenporträt

Joan Bestard-Camps Lecturer in Social Anthropology,University of Barcelona Translated from the Spanish by Robert Pitt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Josep LloberaI IntroductionKinship in FormenteraParadoxes in the
study of kinshipFamily historyThe complex structures of kinshipII Systems
of ClassificationNames and naming ritualGenealogies, names and family
memoryThe name of the houseIdeas about kinship and the language of
communityIII Household FormsThe model of the peasant familyFamily and
residence: morphology and functionsThe structure of the residential group
(1875-1955) a) Household composition b) Types of kin beyond the conjugal
nucleusThe domestic cycle a) Household composition and age of Ego b) Phases
in the domestic cycle c) Transformations in household compositionIV Ways of
Living: Past and PresentThe domestic spaceThe houses of
emigrantsContinuity: the `porxo', multifunctional spaceThe break in the
present: family time and social timeV Household ReproductionThe house as
social representationPatrimonial lines and the conjugal fundThe matrimonial
domainMarriages between consanguine kin and the significance of matrimonial
prohibitionsClose matrimonial strategiesAppendix Census of surnames on
Formentera in 1934BibliographyIndex