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dc.contributor.editorShapiro, Warren
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-15 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:40:49Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:40:49Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier651173
dc.identifierOCN: 1052117503en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29963
dc.description.abstractWhen we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways—nowadays called ‘performative’—of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents, godparents; members of a trade union may refer to each other as ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. Similar performative ties are even more common among the so-called ‘tribal’ peoples that anthropologists have studied and, especially in recent years, they have received considerable attention from scholars in this field. However, these scholars tend to argue that performative kinship in the Tribal World is semantically on a par with kinship established through procreation and marriage. Harold Scheffler, long-time Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, has argued, by contrast, that procreative ties are everywhere semantically central, i.e. focal, that they provide bases from which other kinship ties are extended. Most of the essays in this volume illustrate the validity of Scheffler’s position, though two contest it, and one exemplifies the soundness of a similarly universalistic stance in gender behaviour. This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with current controversy in kinship and gender studies, as well as those who would know what anthropologists have to say about human nature.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groupsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.otherkinship
dc.subject.othergender
dc.subject.otheranthropology
dc.subject.otherharold scheffler
dc.subject.otherEthnography
dc.subject.otherFamily
dc.subject.otherGenealogy
dc.subject.otherParallel and cross cousins
dc.titleFocality and Extension in Kinship
dc.title.alternativeEssays in Memory of Harold W. Scheffler
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/FEK.04.2018
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760461812
oapen.pages428
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Ethnography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography; Family - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family; Genealogy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy; Kinship - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship; Kinship terminology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_terminology; Parallel and cross cousins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_and_cross_cousins
oapen.identifier.ocn1052117503


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