Download or read book Comparative Studies in Kinship written by Jack Goody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology. In each essay, specific problems are treated in a way which tests theory against evidence, to replace assertion by demonstration. Topics covered include: · Incest and Adultery · Double descent systems · Inheritance, social change and the boundary problem · Marriage policy · The circulation of women and children in northern Ghana · Indo-European kinship. First published in 1969.
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Kinship written by Ulla Solveig M. Svensson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theoretical Comparative Study of Approaches to Kinship Systems written by Josephine Eleanor Moikobu and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinship and Culture written by Francis L. K. Hsu and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At one time Francis L.K. Hsu put forth a hypothesis on kinship that proposed a functional relationship between particular kinship systems and behavior patterns in particular cultural contexts. The controversy provoked among cultural anthropologists by this hypothesis is reflected in this book, which points the way toward more fruitful investigations of kinship in cultural and psychological anthropology. Hsu's hypothesis offers an alternative to the study of kinship as a mathematical game and to the treatment of fragmentary aspects of child-rearing practices as major causal factors in culture. Considering the kinship system as the psychological factory of culture, Hsu's aim is to discover the crucial forces in each system that shape the interpersonal orientation of the individual, which forms the individual's basis for adequate functioning as a member of his society and which, in turn, provides his culture with a basis for continuity and change. His central hypothesis is that the attributes of the dominant dyads in a given kinship system (such as father-son or mother-daughter) tend to determine the attitudes and action patterns that the individual in such a system develops toward other relationships in that system as well as toward his relationships outside of it. The topics are varied, ranging from the link between dyadic dominance and household maintenance, to role dilemmas and father-son dominance, to sex-role identity and dominant kinship relationships. The editor has contributed an introduction, an original essay on kinship and patterns of social cohesion, and a summary chapter to bring coherence to the diversity of opinion stated. This new presentation of Hsu's hypothesis, together with its discussion by eminent anthropologists and its recommendations for future research in the area, is an important addition to the literature on kinship. Francis L.K. Hsu (1909-1999) was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and before that chairman of the department of anthropology, Northwestern University. Concentrating mainly in two related areas, psychological anthropology and the comparative study of large civilizations, Hsu did fieldwork in China, Japan, India, and the United States. He was also president of the American Anthropological Association.
Download or read book Southern White Kinship written by Terry Lynn Bias and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Studies in Kinship written by Jack Goody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology. In each essay, specific problems are treated in a way which tests theory against evidence, to replace assertion by demonstration. Topics covered include: · Incest and Adultery · Double descent systems · Inheritance, social change and the boundary problem · Marriage policy · The circulation of women and children in northern Ghana · Indo-European kinship. First published in 1969.
Download or read book Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology written by Ward H. Goodenough and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the major issues in the cross-cultural study of kinship and the family, revealing the kinds of constants, both formal and functional, on which such study must be based. The result is new definitions of marriage, family and parenthood for use in cross-cultural analysis and a greater understanding of this form of analysis itself. The statement on the interdependence of description and comparison in cultural anthropology and its implications for a science of culture, provides fresh insights into cross-cultural analysis for both the theoretical and the practical anthropologist.
Download or read book Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology written by Alfred Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures are intended to commemorate both the man and his work the latter being viewed as having provided an admirably broad and substantial base for anthropologists of later generations to build upon, as they have done and continue to do in diverse ways. Professor Goodenough's work, in the past and in this book particularly, emphasizes the vitality and fruitfulness of Morgan's contributions. Not only do these lectures carry forward Morgan's interests in kinship; they reflect as well his concern for comparative studies undertaken with the aim of ultimately understanding mankind. Moreover, Professor Goodenough has elucidated recent developments in the collection, analysis, and presentation of cultural data in ways that make it easier for all of us to see how his methods (in themselves specialized) can broaden and deepen our understanding of culture and of man. Morgan, himself a pioneer in method, would surely have been an attentive auditor-and discussant-at Professor Goodenough's Lectures, and in his seminars and the less formal events in which he participated while at Rochester, and to which he contributed so much. This volume is an expanded version of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures delivered at the University of Rochester, April 2 to 11, 1968. Alfred Harris was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Rochester. He served as the chair of the anthropology from 1964-1971 and he was well known for being the editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Kinship written by Ulla Solveig Marianne Svensson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinship Ties in Urban and Rural Community a Comparative Study written by Mehdi Nasserpour and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genius of Kinship written by German Valentinovich Dziebel and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dziebel has doctorates in both history and anthropology and is currently both advisor to the Great Russian Encyclopedia and senior anthropologist at Crispin Porter + Bogusky advertising agency. His extremely dense work is actually three books in one. The first is a history of kinship studies from the early 19th century to the present. The second is a comparative study of kinship terminology among non-Indo-European languages, for which he has also prepared a data base published on the internet. The third section, highly controversial, as he admits, uses anthropology, mitochondrial studies and linguistics to suggest that the "out of Africa" model of human origins may be in error and that the first humans actually came from the Americas and spread from there to the rest of the world.
Download or read book Family Systems written by Ruth C. Busch and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative family text is workable and wide-ranging. While assembling historic family studies used by sociologists and anthropologists, it integrates theory from both fields and introduces current contraversies. Theories are field tested with ethnographic material from around the world. Concepts are carefully introduced with examples from the United States, and brought home to the American scene in final summary. An informal style keeps even the technical presentations lively.
Download or read book The Relative Function of Kin written by James Alvin Yost and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative studies in kinship 1 publ written by John Rankine Goody and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marriage Family and Kinship written by Melvin Ember and published by [New Haven, Conn.] : HRAF Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution of Cooperation written by Bahattin Tolga Oztan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this dissertation research is to investigate the origins of cooperation in early human societies and its connection to kinship and marriage, more specifically its tie to what is known in the anthropological literature as in-law avoidance behavior. Humans are unique in that no other animal species can match the level of cooperation and altruistic behavior among humans. Examples closest to human cooperative behavior come from animals such as ants and bees; however, cooperation among these animals can be explained by kin selection, meaning the ants in an ant colony or the bees in a bee hive share the same genetic material and thus altruistic behavior serves to protect the common genetic material. However, in humans, altruistic behavior extends to those who are not genetically related and this unique ability to cooperate with strangers gave our species the evolutionary edge to survive and prosper.At the core of human cooperation lies kinship and marriage. It is through marriage that human groups can extend their kinship network ties to groups other than their own and integrate new members to their core group. Rules of kinship determine the social relations between kin and affines. Such categorization of kin relations create rules for the society to function smoothly. In-law avoidance behavior is one of these crucial rules that organizes the relationship between wives or husbands and their in-laws. Mutual avoidance stemming from mutual respect functions as a conflict aversion mechanism to facilitate the integration of affines to kinship groups. This in return increases jurisdictional hierarchies, political alliance formation and leads to increased levels of cooperation in human societies. As an early adaptation, in-law avoidance relations are observed in low-density societies across the world and they get dropped as societies get more complex and populations get denser.Previous studies on in-law avoidances did not have any means to control for the diffusive effects of geography and common origin of societies and therefore they were prone to the Galton's problem. In this dissertation, we use a lagged network regression method to control for geographical and linguistic proximity and get unbiased and consistent results for the first time.
Download or read book Anthropology by Comparison written by Richard G. Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For the most part, comparison as theory and method has been a casualty of the critique of 'grand theory' and of a growing mistrust of objectivist, hard-science methodology in the social sciences. Today it is time for anthropology to resume its central task of exploring humankind through comparison, using its newfound critical self-awareness under changing global conditions. In Anthropology By Comparision, an international group of prominent anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explore the value of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. While rejecting older, universalist comparative methods, these scholars take a fresh look at various subaltern and neglected approaches to comparison from their own national traditions. They then present new approaches that are especially relevant to the globalized world of the twenty-first century. Every student and practitioner of anthropology and the social sciences will find this thought-provoking volume essential reading. Anthropology, by Comparison is a call to creative reflection on the past and productive action in the present, a challenge to anthropologists to revitalize their unique contribution to human understanding. Anthropology, by Comparison is an indispensable overview of anthropology's roots - and its future - with regard to the comparative study of humankind.
