Introduction to the Science of Kinship

Humans organize systems of social ideas through structures of kinship. In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read describe what those ideas are, how they are used, and what this implies for the science of human social organization.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments and Who Did What
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Path to the Kinship Apocalypse
Chapter 3: Theory of Organizations
Chapter 4: Kinship and Biology
Chapter 5: Kinship Maps
Chapter 6: Ideas Attached to Kinship Maps
Chapter 7: Domestic Group Organizations
Chapter 8: The Hopi
Chapter 9: The Purum
Chapter 10: The Dravidian Problem Transformed
Chapter 11: Kinship, Logic, and Mathematics
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors

About the author

By Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read

Summary

Humans organize systems of social ideas through structures of kinship. In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read describe what those ideas are, how they are used, and what this implies for the science of human social organization.

Product details

• Authors: Murray J. Leaf, Murray J. Read Leaf, Leaf Murray J., Dwight Read
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793632371
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-237-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Anthropology of Kinship and the Family; Anthropology of Kinship and th
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Child, developmental & lifespan psychology, Social & cultural anthropology, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology