How Kinship Systems Change : : On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification / / Robert Parkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Parkin, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction --; Part I Terminological Change --; 1 Kinship as Classification: Towards a Paradigm of Change --; 2 Terminology and Alliance in India: Tribal Systems and the North-South Problem --; 3 From Tetradic Society to Dispersed Alliance --; 4 Why do Societies Abandon Cross-Cousin Marriage? --; 5 Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia --; 6 Indo-European Kinship Terminologies in Europe: Trajectories of Change --; Part II Crow-Omaha --; 7 On the Origin of Crow-Omaha Terminologies --; 8 Substitutability of Kin and the Crow-Omaha Problem --; 9 The Evolution of Kinship Terminologies: Non-prescriptive Forms of Asymmetric Alliance in Indonesia --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Publications on Kinship by Robert Parkin --; Glossary --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800731677; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800731677?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Parkin.

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.