Rethinking Kinship and Marriage (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Needham, Rodney

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background. The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology. Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: Burma, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia, Africa and South America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136536335
• Artikelnr.: 39993214

Autorenporträt

Rodney Needham

Inhaltsangabe

intro: Introduction
1: Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage
2: Meanings of Kinship
3: Marriage: A Reassessment
4: More about 'Mama' and 'Papa'
5: A Question of Preferences The Iatmul Case
6: Marriage and Exchange in the Sepik
7: Some Problems concerning the Wik-mungkan
8: Some Kaguru Notions about Incest and Other Sexual Prohibitions
9: Purum Descent Groups Some Vagaries of Method
10: Sister's Child as Plant