Rethinking Kinship and Marriage

Informationen zum Autor Rodney Needham Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Rodney Needham
• Assisted by: Rodney Needham (Editor), Needham Rodney (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2011
• EAN: 9780415511278
• ISBN: 978-0-415-51127-8
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: family and relationships, Indian record