How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Robert Parkin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

310 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-166-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Robert Parkin was Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, from 2002 until his retirement in 2017. He has conducted field research in India, the UK, Brussels, northern Italy, and Poland.

List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: Terminological change

Chapter 1. Kinship as classification: towards a paradigm of change

Chapter 2. Terminology and alliance in India: tribal systems and the north-south problem

Chapter 3. From tetradic society to dispersed alliance

Chapter 4. Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage?

Chapter 5. Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia

Chapter 6. Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe: trajectories of change

Part II: Crow-Omaha

Chapter 7. On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologies

Chapter 8. Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problem

Chapter 9. The evolution of kinship terminologies: non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in Indonesia

Conclusion

Glossary

Appendix: Publications on kinship by Robert Parkin

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.06.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-166-3 / 1800731663
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-166-0 / 9781800731660
Zustand	Neuware