Reclaiming English kinship : Portuguese refractions of British kinship theory /
In this critical analysis of British kinship theory, Mary Bouquet challenges the claim that kinship is of limited significance to the structure of English society. She reveals the underlying assumptions about kinship to be found in the classic texts of British anthropology.
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
©1993.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. How British social anthropologists learned to 'look to kinship'. I. Reading British social anthropology. II. The genealogical method in the British and French traditions
- Ch. 2. The language of genealogy. A 'bottomless pit of analysis'?
- Ch. 3. Transposing British kinship theory to 1980s Portugal. I. Reading lists and teaching programmes. II. Between English and Portuguese understandings
- Ch. 4. Switching Perspectives. I. Exploring Portuguese kinship. II. Portuguese constructs: from nomes to conversas
- Ch. 5. Disclosing English kinship.