Dividends of Kinship

Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-18284-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: European Association of Social Anthropologists

This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.
The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identities - such as gender, power and history. With examples from a wide range of areas including Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon, it covers themes such as:

* how people choose and activate kin
* leadership, spiritual power and kinship
* inheritance, marriage and social inequality
* familial sentiment and economic interest
* the role of kinship in Utopian communes
Dividends of Kinship
provides a timely and critical reappraisal of the place of familial relations in the contemporary world. It will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in anthropology, and across the social sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schweitzer, Peter P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Choosing kin: sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community, 3 Power and kinship in Shuar and Achuar society, 4 On the importance of being the last one: inheritance and marriage in an Austrian peasant community, 5 Kinship, reciprocity and the world market, 6 Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?, 7 ‘Philoprogenitiveness’ through the cracks: on the resilience and benefits of kinship in Utopian communes, 8 Concluding remarks, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter P. Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lecturer at the University of Vienna