Partible paternity and anthropological theory : the construction of an ethnographic fantasy / Warren Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Warren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship.

Primitive societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Plymouth : Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discusses the conception 'partible paternity' within Amazonian Indian communities. The author argues that fellow anthropologists Beckerman and Valentine are completely wrong in labeling the Amazonian system as one of 'group marriages' in their book Cultures of Multiple Fathers; rather, he states individual marriage and family exist nearly everywhere.

Contents:

Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Three Primitivist Projects; Chapter 02. The Grand Claims of Beckerman and Valentine; Chapter 03. The Northwest Amazon Cases; Chapter 04. Other Pertinent Cases: General Considerations; Chapter 05. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Simpliciter; Chapter 06. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Stemming from Partible Paternity; Chapter 07. Evidence Re the Residential and Symbolic Isolation of the Sexually Bonded Pair and Dependent Offsprin; Chapter 08. Evidence Re Sexual Jealousy

Chapter 09. Evidence Re the Denigration of WomenChapter 10. Miscellaneous Evidence; Chapter 11. Conclusion; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-47973-3

9786612479731

0-7618-4533-X

OCLC:

430067370