Remarks and inventions : skeptical essays about kinship / Rodney Needham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Needham, Rodney., author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.

Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography

Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Family and kinship ; V

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional approaches and criteria. Exploring analysis and method in the disparity between relative age and kinship categories as means of social classification, the book makes theoretical readjustments, largely inspired by the precepts of Wittgenstein.<BR> Originally published in 1971.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication page; Contents; Figures; Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage; 2 Age, Category, and Descent; 3 Surmise, Discovery, and Rhetoric; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

First published in 1974.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-53612-4

1-136-53605-1

1-315-01749-0

9781315017495

OCLC:

869091186