Anthropological Perspectives on KinshipThis 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. |
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Kinship Descent and Marriage | 1962 |
Kinship and the Domestic Domain | |
Lineage Theory | |
Matrilineal and Cognatic Descent | |
Marriage and Alliance | |
Universality of Kinship and the Current Practice of Kinship Studies | |
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agnatic analytical ancestor anthropological anthropologists assumption avunculate basic biological birth bridewealth brothers Cambridge child citamangen cognatic descent concept conceptualisation of kinship consanguinity culturally specific Daribi defined descent categories descent groups descent systems distinction domain domestic groups economic ethnographic Evans-Pritchard exchange of women exogamy fact father female filiation Fortes functions genealogical relations genitor Goody Guinea household husband ideology incest incest taboo individuals kinship and descent kinship relations kinship system kinship theory kinsmen Kwaio Lévi-Strauss lineage systems LoDagaba male marriage married matrilineal descent membership mother mukowa notion nuclear family Nuer one’s organisation parents paternity political polygyny principle procreation recognised ref1 ref2 ref3 ref4 ref5 ref6 ref7 ref8 ref9 relatedness relationship reproduction residence ritual rule Scheffler Schneider segmentary lineage structure segments sexual sister social structure societies Strathern study of kinship substance tabinau Tallensi trace descent unilineal descent unit University Press village Western wife woman Yapese