Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship

Informationen zum Autor Ladislav Holy was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and the author of several publications including Kinship, Honour and Solidarity: Cousin Marriage in the Middle East (1989). He died in 1997. Klappentext Explores new developments in kinship studies in anthropology -- including the impact of new reproductive technologies and changing conceptualisations of personhood and gender. Zusammenfassung Explores new developments in kinship studies in anthropology -- including the impact of new reproductive technologies and changing conceptualisations of personhood and gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: First principles Chapter 2: Kinship! descent and marriage Chapter 3: Kinship and the domestic domain Chapter 4: Descent and the public domain I: lineage theory Chapter 5: Descent and the public domain II: matrilineal and cognatic descent Chapter 6: Marriage and alliance Chapter 7: Universality of kinship and the current practice of kinship studies Notes Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ladislav Holy
• Verlag: Pluto
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.10.1996
• EAN: 9780745309170
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-0917-0
• Seiten: 204
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 215 mm x 14 mm
• Serien: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci
• Themen: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein