Readings in Kinship and Social Structure
Author : Nelson H. H. Graburn
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Nelson H. H. Graburn
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : C. C. Harris
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483186652
Readings in Kinship in Urban Society is a collection of articles on a specialized aspect of Sociology and Social Psychology, mainly focusing on the web of social relationships in urban setting. This book is divided into five major parts, discussing different areas of kinship in urban society. The first part examines kinship systems and the recognition of relationships, wherein certain formal characteristics of the cognatic kinship system of a rural community in Greece are featured. This book then explains the functions of kinship. Mate selection, as well as urbanization and the family, is also tackled. This text concludes by explaining a study of the family life of old people. This publication will be invaluable to anthropologists, sociologists, human ecologists, and other experts interested in studying kinship systems. Anthropology, sociology, and human ecology students will also find this book interesting and helpful.
Author : Meyer Fortes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351510037
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 : C. C. Harris
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483139360
Reading in Kinship in Urban Society is a collection of articles that deal with family and kinship in urban settlements. It provides comparative ethnographic data and introduces studies and approaches found outside British social inquiry. Organized into four parts, this book first introduces kinship systems and the recognition of relationships in various communities. It then identifies the functions of kinship systems and pays particular attention to inheritance of property. After discussing patterns of mate selection and marital relationships, it turns to the effects of urbanization on family life. This book ends with a discussion about the family life of elderly people. Anthropologists and sociologists studying the relation of kinship to societies will find this book invaluable.
Author : Roger M. Keesing
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
An introductory survey of anthropological theory on kinship and social structure; case studies included discussion of the Kariera four-section system as an example of a symmetrical alliance system.
Author : Murray J. Leaf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 23,56 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 : Christopher Charles Harris
Publisher :
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
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Author : Francis Korn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520319451
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Author : Stephen A. Grunlan
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310535867
This volume on cultural anthropology presents a Christian perspective for Bible school students of conservative evangelical backgrounds. The hope is that a sympathetic approach to the problems of cultural diversity throughout the world will help young people overcome typical North American cultural biases and bring understanding and appreciation for the diversities of behavior and thought that exist in a culturally heterogeneous world. Grunlan and Mayers take the position of "functional creationism"; and though they discuss some of the problems implied in traditional interpretations of the age of the world and especially of the creation of the human race, they do not attempt to deal with either physical anthropology or the origins of man. They do, however, attempt to deal meaningfully with the problems posed by biblical absolutism and cultural relativism, and their practice. Concluding chapters with a series of thought-provoking questions should prove to be of real help to both the professional and nonprofessional teacher of anthropology.
Author : Roger M. Keesing
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
An introductory survey of anthropological theory on kinship and social structure; case studies included discussion of the Kariera four-section system as an example of a symmetrical alliance system.