Focality and Extension in Kinship Essays in Memory of Harold W. Scheffler

When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways-nowadays called 'performative'-of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents, godparents; members of a trade union may...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shapiro, Warren (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: ANU Press 2018
Subjects:
Online Access:DOAB: download the publication
DOAB: description of the publication
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000naaaa2200000uu 4500
001 doab_20_500_12854_27982
005 20210210
003 oapen
006 m o d
007 cr|mn|---annan
008 20210210s2018 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d
020 |a FEK.04.2018 
020 |a 9781760461812 
040 |a oapen  |c oapen 
024 7 |a 10.22459/FEK.04.2018  |c doi 
041 0 |a eng 
042 |a dc 
072 7 |a JFSJ  |2 bicssc 
072 7 |a JHMC  |2 bicssc 
100 1 |a Shapiro, Warren  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Shapiro, Warren  |4 oth 
245 1 0 |a Focality and Extension in Kinship  |b Essays in Memory of Harold W. Scheffler 
260 |b ANU Press  |c 2018 
300 |a 1 electronic resource (428 p.) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
506 0 |a Open Access  |2 star  |f Unrestricted online access 
520 |a When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways-nowadays called 'performative'-of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents, godparents; members of a trade union may refer to each other as 'brother' or 'sister'. Similar performative ties are even more common among the so-called 'tribal' peoples that anthropologists have studied and, especially in recent years, they have received considerable attention from scholars in this field. However, these scholars tend to argue that performative kinship in the Tribal World is semantically on a par with kinship established through procreation and marriage. Harold Scheffler, long-time Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, has argued, by contrast, that procreative ties are everywhere semantically central, i.e. focal, that they provide bases from which other kinship ties are extended. Most of the essays in this volume illustrate the validity of Scheffler's position, though two contest it, and one exemplifies the soundness of a similarly universalistic stance in gender behaviour. This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with current controversy in kinship and gender studies, as well as those who would know what anthropologists have to say about human nature. 
540 |a All rights reserved  |4 http://oapen.org/content/about-rights 
546 |a English 
650 7 |a Gender studies, gender groups  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography  |2 bicssc 
653 |a kinship 
653 |a gender 
653 |a anthropology 
653 |a harold scheffler 
653 |a Ethnography 
653 |a Family 
653 |a Genealogy 
653 |a Parallel and cross cousins 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29963/1/651173.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29963/1/651173.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29963/1/651173.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29963/1/651173.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27982  |7 0  |z DOAB: description of the publication