How Kinship Systems Change : : On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification / / 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 Sout...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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