Readings in kinship and social structure

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Social evolutionary theory and the rise of kinship studies......Page 17
The primitive family and the corporation......Page 19
The comparative study of family systems......Page 20
On a method of investigating the development of institutions; applied to laws of marriage and descent......Page 27
Selected readings......Page 38
Psychological, ethnological, and sociological approaches......Page 40
The social organization of American tribes......Page 41
The sociological method......Page 46
The division of labor in society......Page 50
Notes on Durkheim's epistemology......Page 53
The origin of the incest taboo......Page 54
Selected readings......Page 56
Rivers and Kroeber and the nature of kinship......Page 58
The genealogical method......Page 59
Classificatory systems of relationship......Page 66
Rivers on the psychology and sociology of kinship......Page 72
Selected readings......Page 73
American caution and progress: 1915-1935......Page 74
Exogamy and the classificatory systems of relationship......Page 75
Historical and sociological interpretations of kinship terminologies......Page 79
Terms of relationship and the levirate......Page 84
Selected readings......Page 88
Structure and function: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski......Page 90
The methods of ethnology and social anthropology......Page 93
On rules of descent and interkin behavior......Page 95
Kinship......Page 103
Selected readings......Page 112
The study of changing kinship systems......Page 114
Historical changes in the Choctaw kinship system......Page 115
Two processes of change in Mandan-Hidatsa kinship terminology......Page 126
Economic change, social mobility, and kinship in Serbia......Page 133
Selected readings......Page 137
Structure and function: Further developments......Page 139
General observations upon the classificatory system......Page 140
Marriage vs. descent in matrilineal Dobu......Page 141
Respect and joking relationships among the Cheyenne and Arapaho......Page 147
On joking relationships......Page 151
Selected readings......Page 156
Structure and function: Reviews and the comparative method......Page 158
Statistical comparisons of kinship systems......Page 159
Social structure and social organization......Page 164
The structure of unilineal descent groups......Page 168
Social anthropology and the method of controlled comparison......Page 178
The failure of the comparative method......Page 192
Selected readings......Page 194
Nonunilineal kinship......Page 196
Bilateral kin groupings as a structural type: A preliminary statement......Page 197
A note on descent groups in Polynesia......Page 200
Nonunilinear descent and descent groups......Page 205
Selected readings......Page 215
Alliance and descent......Page 217
The nature of social reciprocity......Page 218
Social structure......Page 220
An alternative theory......Page 227
Marriage alliance......Page 236
Selected readings......Page 240
The meaning of kin terms: Formal and componential analyses......Page 243
Kinship, marriage rules and residential models......Page 244
A new method of analysing kinship systems: Componential analysis......Page 255
The nature of formal analysis......Page 261
The structural analysis of kinship semantics......Page 262
Cognitive aspects of English kin terms......Page 276
Cognition and componential analysis: God's truth or hocus-pocus......Page 283
Further comments on componential analysis......Page 289
Selected readings......Page 291
Status and role......Page 293
Status and role......Page 295
The role-set: Problems in sociological theory......Page 301
Structure, network, pattern and role......Page 303
Role and interaction......Page 309
Rethinking 'status' and 'role': Toward a general model of the cultural organization of social relationships......Page 313
Selected readings......Page 325
Incest taboos: Origins and functions......Page 326
The definition and prohibition of incest......Page 328
Ecological factors in the origin of incest......Page 340
The incest taboo and the mating patterns of animals......Page 349
Selected readings......Page 357
The family and marriage......Page 359
The nuclear family......Page 360
The Nayars and the definition of marriage......Page 367
Selected readings......Page 378
Kinship in contemporary societies......Page 380
Kinship terminology and the American kinship system......Page 382
The nature of English kinship......Page 386
Family and social network: Summary and general discussion......Page 390
American kinship: A cultural account......Page 392
Compadrazgo: Fictive kinhip in Latin America......Page 397
Urbanisation case history in Peru......Page 407
Selected readings......Page 411
Abbreviations......Page 414
Bibliography......Page 415
Index......Page 437
Contraportada......Page 451