Introduction to the Science of Kinship

337 Pages·2020·3.328 MB·English

by  Murray J. Leaf and Dwight W. Read

Introduction to the
Science of Kinship
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Anthropology of Kinship and the Family
Series Editors: Murray J. Leaf (University of Texas at Dallas) and
Dwight W. Read (University of California, Los Angeles)
Mission Statement
Kinship relations create the foundation of human systems of social organization. In order to
understand kinship as a system of social relations, it is necessary to examine the structural
organization of terms. The Anthropology of Kinship and the Family series is based on the
notion that the underlying ideas of kinship can have more immediate importance than the
linguistic symbols, as these ideas are evident in all behaviors involved in kin relationships.
This series encourages contributors to highlight the social and conceptual power of kinship
terminologies. Scholarly monographs and edited collections that focus on old topics asso-
ciated with kinship, such as family organization and rules of marriage, and new approaches
to the study of kinship systems are welcome.
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Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Kinship and Solidarity in a
Polyethnic Society by Keith Doubt and Adnan Tufekčić
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Introduction to the
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Murray J. Leaf and Dwight W. Read
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgments and Who Did What xi
1 Introduction 1
2 The Path to the Kinship Apocalypse 17
3 Theory of Organizations 47
4 Kinship and Biology 71
5 Kinship Maps 105
6 Ideas Attached to Kinship Maps 123
7 Domestic Group Organizations 143
8 The Hopi 163
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vi Contents
Glossary 301
References 305
Index 315
About the Authors 323
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List of Figures
Figure 2.1 Lowie’s Terminology Classification 25
Figure 2.2 Radcliffe-Brown’s Table 1, Kariera, Male Speaker 31
Figure 2.3 Radcliffe-Brown’s Table 2, Kariera, Female Speaker 32
Figure 2.4 Mother’s Brother’s Daughter Marriage with
Patrilineal Descent 37
Figure 2.5 Father’s Sister’s Daughter Marriage 38
Figure 3.1 Shannon and Weaver’s Original Diagram of the
Communication Process 48
Figure 3.2 The Communication Cycle 50
Figure 3.3 Punjabi Kinship Map 58
Figure 4.1 The Venus of Willendorf 90
Figure 5.1 Core Positions Labelled with Both Punjabi and English
Kin Terms 106
Figure 5.2 Kin Term Product Relation 107
Figure 5.3 English Kinship Map 110
Figure 5.4 Eliciting the Czech Kinship Map 111
Figure 5.5 English Compared to Czech 112
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.sko Figure 9.1 Purum Kinship Map, Female Speaker 201
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viii List of Figures
Figure 10.3 Seneca Kinship Map, Female Speaker 232
Figure 10.4 Seneca Kinship Map, Male Speaker 232
Figure 11.1A,B Tamil Kin Term Maps: (A) Male Speaker and (B)
Female Speaker 246
Figure 11.2A K in Term Map for Iroquois Terminology (Male
Speaker) 257
Figure 11.2B K in Term Map for Iroquois Terminology (Female
Speaker) 258
Figure 11.3A K in Term Map for Kariera Structure (Male
Speaker) Derived from Iroquois 261
Figure 11.3B K in Term Map for Kariera Structure (Female
Speaker) Derived from Iroquois 262
Figure 11.4A Deriving Crow Structure (Male Speaker) from Iroquois 265
Figure 11.4B D eriving Crow Structure (Female Speaker) from
Iroquois 266
Figure 11.5A Crow Structure (Figure 11.4B) with Hopi Kin Terms 267
Figure 11.5B C onsolidating Transformation of Crow Structure to
Hopi 268
Figure 11.6A Hopi Lineage Generation 269
Figure 11.6B Purum Asymmetric Lineage Generation 270
Figure 11.7 Purum Wife Exchange 271
Figure 11.8 KAES Front Page 274
Figure 11.9 KAES Tamil, Male Speaker, Ready to Simplify 274
Figure 11.10 Tamil Generative Core for Figure 11.9 278
Figure 11.11 Read’s Kinship Typology 282
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List of Tables
Table 2.1 Morgan’s Glosses for Seneca and Tamil 21
Table 2.2 Wallace and Atkins’s English “Components” 29
Table 7.1 American Domestic Groups, 2010 Census 150
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