How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:608 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781800731660

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Robert Parkin was Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, from 2002 until his retirement in 2017. He has conducted field research in India, the UK, Brussels, northern Italy, and Poland.

Recensioner i media

“Accounts of kinship terminology evolution either have mostly focused on single, or a few, regions without placing the account into a larger context… Parkin provides a far more complete account based on extensive empirical evidence regarding the world-wide variations among kinship terminologies.” • Dwight Read, UCLA

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresIntroductionPart I: Terminological changeChapter 1. Kinship as classification: towards a paradigm of changeChapter 2. Terminology and alliance in India: tribal systems and the north-south problemChapter 3. From tetradic society to dispersed allianceChapter 4. Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage?Chapter 5. Dravidian and Iroquois in South AsiaChapter 6. Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe: trajectories of changePart II: Crow-OmahaChapter 7. On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologiesChapter 8. Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problemChapter 9. The evolution of kinship terminologies: non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in IndonesiaConclusionGlossaryAppendix: Publications on kinship by Robert ParkinIndex