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agnatic
Agnatic Kin
ancestor
anthropological methodology
apical
Apical Ancestor
Author_Harold Scheffler
Author_Harold W Scheffler
Category=JHMC
Chia Tsu
Close Agnatic Kin
Cognatic Descent
Cognatic Descent Groups
common
Common Patrilineal Descent
comparative kinship systems
descendants
descent
Descent Groups
entities
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ethnographic analysis
Father's Group
groups
Harold W. Scheffler
jural
Jural Entities
Jural Significance
Jural Values
kinship theory
lineage structure
Matrilineal Descent Group
Minimal Tar
Nuer Lineage
patrilineal
Patrilineal Descendants
Patrilineal Descent
Patrilineal Descent Groups
political anthropology
Rightful Interest
Segmentary Lineage System
social organization
Tribal Section
Unilineal Descent
Unilineal Descent Groups
Unilineal Descent System
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780813337616
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects continue routinely to be encountered in the course of empirical ethnographic research and to be reported upon in ethnographies ? or they are ignored at the peril of ethnographers pathetically unprepared to deal with them. Moreover, considerable evidence has accumulated that systems of social relations built on relations of genealogical connection exhibit a remarkable degree of orderliness about which it is possible already to make a number of substantial empirical generalizations, especially about the qualities of social relations within and between groups. As the masters of the subject always stressed, kinship and political and jural organization are closely interdependent structures. In this wide-ranging theoretical and comparative-ethnographic study, Harold Scheffler demonstrates that there is a simple reason why detection of this order has been too long delayed and has given rise to more destructive than to constructive debate in social anthropology.
Harold Scheffler is Professor and former Chair of Anthropology at Yale University. He has done ethnographic research among the Plains Ojibwa, in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and in several parts of aboriginal Australia. His previous publications include Choiseul Island Social Structure (1965), A Study in Structural Semantics: The Siriono Kinship System (with F. G. Lounsbury, 1972), and Australian Kin Classification (1978), as well as numerous items in various professional journals. Over the years he has taught or has been a research fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, the University of Brisbane, the University of the Witwatersrand, and a DAAD Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin.
