Metamorphoses of Kinship

Name: Metamorphoses of Kinship
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ISBN: 9781844677467

ISBN-10: 184467746X

ISBN-13: 9781844677467

Edition: 2011

Authors: Maurice Godelier, Nora Scott

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A declining marriage rate, rising divorce rate, families breaking up and reforming, homosexual marriage and adoption. Where are the transformations in the family today taking us? In order to understand what is happening and what awaits us, the world- renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier has decided to open up the whole question of kinship, surveying the accumulated experiences of humanity as regards marriages and unions, the organization of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the history of the study of kinship, from the nineteenth century to the present, in order to develop his own hypotheses. He concludes that it is nowhere the case that…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 3/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 654
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.090

Henry J. Steadman, Ph.D., Policy Research Associates, Delmar, NY.



Introduction



Kinship in the Field: The Baruya of New Guinea



The Components of Kinship



Filiation and Descent (First Component)



Alliance and Residence (Second and Third Components)



Kinship Terminologies (Fourth Component)



The Functions and Field of Parenthood



Begetting Ordinary Humans (Fifth Component 1)



Begetting Extraordinary Humans (Fifth Component 2)



The Sexed Body: A Ventriloquist's Dummy That Gives Voice to the Order or the Disorder of Society and the Cosmos



Incest (Sixth Component): And a Few Other Misuses of Sex



Concerning the Origins and the Basis of the Incest Taboo: Freud and Lï¿½vi-Strauss



Proposals for a Different Scenario



Of the Past, We Cannot Make a Clean State: Assessing the Theories


Conclusion: What Future for What Kin Ties?


Glossary


Bibliography


Index of General Terms


Index of Personal Names


Index of Societies


Maps