Rethinking kinship and marriage / edited by Rodney Needham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Needham, Rodney.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography ; VI.

Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Family & kinship ; VI

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship--Congresses.

Kinship.

Marriage--Congresses.

Marriage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, [2004?]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.<BR> The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology.<BR> Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: Burma, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia, Africa and South America.

Contents:

Cover; Halftitle Page ; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Contents ; Prefatory Note ; RODNEY NEEDHAM ; Introduction ; Background ; Philosophy ; Formalism ; Analysis ; Wikmunkan ; Affect ; Prescriptive alliance ; The Purum case ; Competence and authority ; Acknowledgements ; 1 RODNEY NEEDHAM ; Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage ; Introduction ; Kinship; Marriage ; Descent ; Terminologies ; Incest; Conclusions ; 2 MARTIN SOUTHWOLD ; Meanings of Kinship ; Introduction ; The Ganda terminology ; What is Kinship? ; Kinship and parentation ; Social relationship

Parentation and congeniacy Conclusions ; 3 P. G. RIVIERE ; Marriage: A Reassessment ; Introduction ; Functions ; Constituents ; Relationships ; Conclusions ; 4 EDMUND LEACH ; More about 'Mama and 'Papa' ; Introduction ; Affect and phonology ; Sinhalese ; Kachin ; Conclusions ; 5 FRANCIS KORN ; A Question of Preferences: The Iatmul Case ; Introduction ; Iatmul institutions ; Relationship terminology ; Rules of marriage ; Marriage practices ; Bateson's interpretation ; Formal analysis of the terminology ; Lines and categories ; Prescription and alternation ; Alliances

Empirical correspondences Prestations ; Preferences ; Ideal and variants ; Preference and structure in Levi-Strauss ; Iatmul society and elementary structures ; Classification ; Method; 6 ANTHONY FORGE ; Marriage and Exchange in the Sepik: Comments on Francis Korn's Analysis of Iatmul Society ; Introduction ; Symmetrical exchange ; Asymmetric marriage ; Conclusions ; 7 DAVID MCKNIGHT ; Some Problems concerning the Wik-mungkan ; Introduction ; McConnel's analysis and kinship models ; Descent lines ; Kinship terms ; Marriage system ; Patterns of behaviour and attitudes

Homans and Schneider's theory Levi-Strauss's law of the atom of kinship ; Conclusions ; Postcript ; 8 T. O. BEIDELMAN ; Some Kaguru Notions about Incest and Other Sexual Prohibitions ; Introduction ; Prohibitions ; Infractions ; Folklore ; Conclusions ; 9 WILLIAM WILDER ; Purum Descent Groups: Some Vagaries of Method ; Introduction ; The Ackerman matrix ; Direct exchange? ; Purum descent groups ; Concluding remarks ; 10 JAMES J. FOX ; Sister's Child as Plant: Metaphors in an Idiom of Consanguinity ; Introduction ; A formulation of the problem ; The Rotinese of eastern Indonesia

Determination of the mother's brother (took) Determination of the mother's brother of origin (too-huk) ; Mother's brother and sister's child: performance and idiom ; Comments and conclusions ; Notes on Contributors ; Name Index ; Subject Index

Notes:

First published in 1971.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-53640-X

0-415-51127-5

1-315-01750-4

1-136-53633-7

9781315017501

OCLC:

862613510