How kinship systems change : on the dialectics of practice and classification /: on the dialectics of practice and classification. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: Robert Parkin.
• Authors: Parkin, Robert, 1950-
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.83; Kinship; Marriage -- Social aspects; Cross-cousin marriage; Kinship -- India; Crow Indians -- Kinship; Omaha Indians -- Kinship
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800731677
• Related ISBNs: 9781800731660
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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