How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-07-16
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt608 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor310
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800731660

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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