Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia

The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and Subjectivity
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4645-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific

This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gender and kinship in Australia, which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that underlies kinship practices and argues that the Australian family is characterized by deep cultural and social continuities rather than the common view that the family is undergoing substantial change. He further shows how the modern family both shapes, and is shaped by, broad social and economic processes. This analysis provides greater insight into this critical field of practice as well as showcasing a novel analytical approach to practice that is rooted in the sociology of practice and in the anthropology of cognition. The book also suggests changes to the way in which social scientists currently treat family and kinship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uhlmann, Allon J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Project and the Field; Chapter 2 The Historical Evolution of the Australian Family; Chapter 3 Contemporary Patterns of Family Practice: Historical Continuity and the Myth of Crisis; Chapter 4 The Doxic Family; Chapter 5 Doxa, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy; Chapter 6 Structural Aspects of Kinship; Chapter 7 Internalized Gender Structures; Chapter 8 Family and Gender, and Society at Large; Chapter 9 Some Theoretical and Methodological Elaborations;

Über Autor(innen)

Allon J. Uhlmann is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, USA.