Rethinking Kinship and Marriage

ISBN-13: 9780415330138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 400 str.

Rodney Needham

Opis

This volume is concerned with the fundamental topics of social anthropology: kinship & marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints. The wide range of subjects covered includes: incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance & methodology.

Spis treści

intro: Introduction; 1: Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage; 2: Meanings of Kinship; 3: Marriage: A Reassessment; 4: More about ‘Mama’ and ‘Papa’; 5: A Question of Preferences The Iatmul Case; 6: Marriage and Exchange in the Sepik; 7: Some Problems concerning the Wik-mungkan; 8: Some Kaguru Notions about Incest and Other Sexual Prohibitions; 9: Purum Descent Groups Some Vagaries of Method; 10: Sister's Child as Plant

O autorze

Rodney Needham