How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Robert Parkin

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Robert Parkin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800731677

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Accounts of kinship terminology evolution either have mostly focused on single, or a few, regions without placing the account into a larger context… Parkin provides a far more complete account based on extensive empirical evidence regarding the world-wide variations among kinship terminologies.” • Dwight Read, UCLA

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Terminological Change
1 Kinship as Classification: Towards a Paradigm of Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 Terminology and Alliance in India: Tribal Systems and the North-South Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
3 From Tetradic Society to Dispersed Alliance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4 Why do Societies Abandon Cross-Cousin Marriage? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
5 Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6 Indo-European Kinship Terminologies in Europe: Trajectories of Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part II Crow-Omaha
7 On the Origin of Crow-Omaha Terminologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
8 Substitutability of Kin and the Crow-Omaha Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
9 The Evolution of Kinship Terminologies: Non-prescriptive Forms of Asymmetric Alliance in Indonesia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Appendix: Publications on Kinship by Robert Parkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 310
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Sociology

eBook

Published: July 16, 2021
ISBN: 9781800731677