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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454014603321

Autore

Shapiro Warren

Titolo

Partible paternity and anthropological theory [[electronic resource] ] : the construction of an ethnographic fantasy / / Warren Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham ; ; Plymouth, : Rowman & Littlefield, 2009

ISBN

1-282-47973-3

9786612479731

0-7618-4533-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (78 p.)

Disciplina

306.808998

980

Soggetti

Kinship

Primitive societies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Three Primitivist Projects; Chapter 02. The Grand Claims of Beckerman and Valentine; Chapter 03. The Northwest Amazon Cases; Chapter 04. Other Pertinent Cases: General Considerations; Chapter 05. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Simpliciter; Chapter 06. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Stemming from Partible Paternity; Chapter 07. Evidence Re the Residential and Symbolic Isolation of the Sexually Bonded Pair and Dependent Offsprin; Chapter 08. Evidence Re Sexual Jealousy

Chapter 09. Evidence Re the Denigration of WomenChapter 10.  Miscellaneous Evidence; Chapter 11. Conclusion; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the conception 'partible paternity' within Amazonian Indian communities. The author argues that fellow anthropologists Beckerman and Valentine are completely wrong in labeling the Amazonian system as one of 'group marriages' in their book Cultures of Multiple Fathers; rather, he states individual marriage and family exist nearly everywhere.