Introduction to Kinship and Social Organization
Author : Burton Pasternak
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Burton Pasternak
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : W. H. R. Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization', exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries and successors. This volume reprints three of his lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914, which provide a short and brilliant exposition of his theoretical approach, and are exemplary of his handling of ethnographic evidence. His theme is the relationship between kinship terminologies and social organization, more particularly forms of marriage, a subject still of lively theoretical interest. Also included is the same author's The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Enquiry, first published in 1910, a classic of anthropological methodology, and Professor Raymond Firth of the London School of Economics and Professor David Schneider of the University of Chicago provide commentaries estimating the past and present importance of Rivers in British and American Anthropology respectively.
Author : Meyer Fortes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351510045
One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s. It is the central argument of this book that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization is the direct descendant of Morgan's researches. The volume starts with a re-examination of Morgan's work. Professor Fortes demonstrates how a tradition of misinterpretation has disguised the true import of Morgan's discoveries. He follows with a detailed analysis of the work of Rivers and Radcliffe-Brown and the generation of anthropologists inspired by them. The author states his own point of view as it has developed in the framework of modern structuralist theory, with ethnographic examples examined in depth. He shows that the social relations and institutions conventionally grouped under the rubric of kinship and social organization belong simultaneously to two complementary domains of social structure, the familial and the political. Meyer Fortes' contribution to the field of anthropology can best be understood in the context of balance of forces between these domains of the personal and public. In the latter part of the book, he gives detailed attention to the principal conceptual issues that have confronted research and theory in the study of kinship and social organizations since Morgan's time. He shows that kinship institutions are autonomous, not mere by-products of economic requirements, and demonstrates the moral base of kinship in the rule of amity.
Author : William Halse Rivers Rivers
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Chapais
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674029429
At some point in the course of evolutionâe"from a primeval social organization of early hominidsâe"all human societies, past and present, would emerge. In this account of the dawn of human society, Bernard Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports, and informs, ideas first put forward by the distinguished social anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss. Chapais contends that only a few evolutionary steps were required to bridge the gap between the kinship structures of our closest relativesâe"chimpanzees and bonobosâe"and the human kinship configuration. The pivotal event, the author proposes, was the evolution of sexual alliances. Pair-bonding transformed a social organization loosely based on kinship into one exhibiting the strong hold of kinship and affinity. The implication is that the gap between chimpanzee societies and pre-linguistic hominid societies is narrower than we might think. Many books on kinship have been written by social anthropologists, but Primeval Kinship is the first book dedicated to the evolutionary origins of human kinship. And perhaps equally important, it is the first book to suggest that the study of kinship and social organization can provide a link between social and biological anthropology.
Author : Rosemary A. Joyce
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1512821624
Beyond Kinship brings together ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and cultural anthropologists for the first time in a common discussion of the social model of house societies proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss. While kinship theory has been central to the study of social organization, an alternative approach has emerged—that of seeing the "house" both as a physical and symbolic structure and a principle of social organization. The house stands as a model social formation that is distinguished by its attention to a number of material domains (land, the dwelling, ritual and nonritual objects). As the essays in this volume make clear, the focus on material culture and on place contributes to the ongoing convergence of anthropology and history and helps erase the artificial distinctions between prehistory and history. Contributions to the volume offer significant new interpretations of primary data as well as reconsidering classic ethnographic material. Beyond Kinship crosses the boundaries within anthropology—not only between cultural anthropology and archaeology but between structural—symbolic and materialist approaches and between American and British schools of anthropology; it is intended to advance the fruitful dialogue now taking place within the field.
Author : Marilyn Gregerson
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Discusses how people in Irian Jaya cope with the forces that present both tension and stability as an essential part of their social fabric.
Author : W. H. R. RIVERS
Publisher : HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 6256942647
Author : Murray J. Leaf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793632383
In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is associated with interrelated definitions of social roles and relations. These roles and relations have four specific logical properties: reciprocity, transitivity, boundedness, and imaginary spatial dimensionality. These properties allow individuals to use them in communication to create ongoing, agreed-upon, organizations. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and mathematics.
Author : Melvin Ember
Publisher : [New Haven, Conn.] : HRAF Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :