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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810326903321

Titolo

Crow-Omaha [[electronic resource] ] : new light on a classic problem of kinship analysis / / Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2012

ISBN

1-299-19183-5

0-8165-9931-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Amerind studies in anthropology

Altri autori (Persone)

TrautmannThomas R

WhiteleyPeter M

Disciplina

978.6004/975272

Soggetti

Crow Indians - Kinship

Omaha Indians - Kinship

Crow Indians - Social networks

Omaha Indians - Social networks

Kinship - Great Plains - History

Social structure - Great Plains - History

Social evolution - Great Plains - History

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, glossary and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Kinship Notation""; ""Linguistic Note""; ""1. A Classic Problem - Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley""; ""Crow-Omaha in Theory""; ""2. Crossness and Crow-Omaha - Thomas R. Trautmann""; ""3. Tetradic Theory and Omaha Systems - Nicholas J. Allen""; ""North America""; ""4. Omaha and “Omaha� - R. H. Barnes""; ""5. Crow-Omaha Kinship in North America: A Puebloan Perspective - Peter M. Whiteley""; ""6. Phylogenetic Analysis of Sociocultural Data: Identifying Transformation Vectors for Kinship Systems - Ward C. Wheeler, Peter M. Whiteley, and Theodore Powers""

""Africa""""7. A Tetradic Starting Point for Skewing? Marriage as a Generational Contract: Reflections on Sister-Exchange in Africa - Wendy James""; ""8. Crow-(and Omaha-) TypeKinship Terminology: The Fanti Case - David B. Kronenfeld""; ""9. Deep-Time Historical Contexts of Crow and Omaha Systems Perspectives from Africa - Christopher



Ehret""; ""South America""; ""10. The Making and Unmaking of “Crow-Omaha� Kinship in Central Brazil(ian Ethnology) - Marcela Coelho de Souza""