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Author | : Ladislav Holy |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1996-10-20 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780745309170 |
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This authoritative introductory text takes into account the changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing interest in culturally specific notions of personhood and gender. Holy considers the extent to which Western assumptions have guided anthropological study of kinship in the past. In the process, he reveals a growing sensitivity on the part of anthropologists to individual ideas of personhood and gender, and encourages further critical reflection on cultural bias in approaches to the subject.
Author | : Robin Fox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521278232 |
Download Kinship and Marriage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New paperback edition of Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance, which has become an established classic of social science literature.
Author | : Myron L. Cohen |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804750677 |
Download Kinship, Contract, Community, and State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.
Author | : Erdmute Alber |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137513446 |
Download Anthropological Perspectives on Care Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the course of last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social and cultural sciences. As a result of this proliferation of care in several disciplinary fields, we are observing not only the expansion of its conceptual meaning, but also an increasing imprecision in its usage. A growing amount of literature focuses on the intersection between work, gender, ethnicity, affect, and mobility regimes. In view of this growing field of literature, Anthropological Perspectives on Care looks at the notion of care from an anthropological perspective. Complementing earlier approaches, Alber and Drotbohm argue that an interpretation of care in relation to three different concepts, namely work, kinship and the life-course, will facilitate empirical and conceptual distinctions between the different activities that are labeled as care.
Author | : Susanne Brandtstädter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134105886 |
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This volume presents contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, and documents in rich ethnographic detail its historical complexity and regional diversity. The collection's analytical emphasis is on the modern 'metamorphoses' of kinship in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, but the essays also offer ample historical documentation and comparison.
Author | : Martine Guichard |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782382879 |
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Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.
Author | : Amit Desai |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1845458508 |
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Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.
Author | : Monika Böck |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781571819123 |
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These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Erdmute Alber |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2022-12-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1800737858 |
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The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.
Author | : Marilyn Strathern |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9780719036743 |
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These essays, written at the time when the Bill for Human Fertilization and Embryology Act (1990) was going through Parliament, touch on the British debate (on in vitro fertilization, gamete donation and maternal surrogacy) from an anthropological perspective. The implications of the medical developments that lay behind the Act are world-wide and these new procreative possibilities formulate new possibilities for thinking about kinship. The essays are informed by recent re-thinking of models of kinship in Melanesia.