How kinship systems change : on the dialectics of practice and classification /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Parkin, Robert, 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
Subjects:	Kinship. Marriage > Social aspects. Cross-cousin marriage. Kinship > India. Crow Indians > Kinship. Omaha Indians > Kinship. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Introduction
Part I. Terminological change
Kinship as classification : towards a paradigm of change
Terminology and alliance in India : tribal systems and the North-South problem
From Tetradic society to dispersed alliance
Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage?
Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia
Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe : trajectories of change
Part II. Crow-Omaha
On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologies
Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problem
The evolution of kinship terminologies : non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in Indonesia
Conclusion
Glossary
Appendix
Publications on kinship by Robert Parkin.