Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America

Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America

Author: Raymond Thomas Smith

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780807816073

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In this volume an international group of anthropologists and historians examines the complex relationships between family life, culture, and economic change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dissatisfied with interpretations based on European experience


Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan

Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan

Author: Roger Goodman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134927126

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The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns. In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which they have sometimes been used to create a sense of `Japaneseness', that obscures the fact that Japan is actually an extremely complex and heterogenous society. In particular, `practice' at the micro-level of society is explored to illuminate or express a broader ideology. The contributors investigate a wide variety of subjects - from attitudes to death to the role of education, from film making to gender segregation - to see what can be said about the phenomenon in particular, what it tells us about Japan in general, and what conclusions can be drawn for our understanding of society in the broadest sense.


Gender and Kinship

Gender and Kinship

Author: Jane Fishburne Collier

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780804718196

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A Stanford University Press classic.


Culture, Creation, and Procreation

Culture, Creation, and Procreation

Author: Monika Böck

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9781571819116

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These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR


Forsaken Harvest

Forsaken Harvest

Author: Luis G. Cueva

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1796015946

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This historical monograph examines the decline of the hacienda estates within Jalisco, Mexico, during the early decades of the twentieth century. The book also explores the impact of the land reform program of President Lázaro Cárdenas in transforming the agrarian economic structure of the region. This study contributes to an ongoing lively debate about the hacienda system and the meaning of Cárdenas’s reforms. This is an important work because it explores the evolution of a regional socioeconomic system that promoted urban industrial growth at the expense of the rural poor. The model of regional development described is applicable to other areas of Mexico and underdeveloped Third World nations with extensive peasant populations. The research for this investigation has wider implications regarding issues of global hunger and malnutrition.


Divisions and Solidarities

Divisions and Solidarities

Author: Alison MacEwen Scott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1134978146

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Traditionally, class analysis has exaggerated the role of economic differentiation, particularly that of the informal economy, and has underestimated the degree of common consciousness amongst the `labouring class'. In Divisions and Solidarities, Alison MacEwen Scott examines class analysis and the inter-relationship between gender and class which creates a shared interest between men and women in some contexts and a divergence of interest in others. Using case studies of the urban population in Latin America, she presents a major critique of existing class theories and presents a new theoretical treatment on class formation, the orthodoxy of the informal economy, class consciousness and political participation.


The Matrifocal Family

The Matrifocal Family

Author: Raymond T. Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1136659595

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The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination.


Empire by Collaboration

Empire by Collaboration

Author: Robert Michael Morrissey

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0812246993

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From the beginnings of colonial settlement in Illinois Country, the region was characterized by self-determination and collaboration that did not always align with imperial plans. The French in Quebec established a somewhat reluctant alliance with the Illinois Indians while Jesuits and fur traders planted defiant outposts in the Illinois River Valley beyond the Great Lakes. These autonomous early settlements were brought into the French empire only after the fact. As the colony grew, the authority that governed the region was often uncertain: Canada and Louisiana alternately claimed control over the Illinois throughout the eighteenth century. Later, British and Spanish authorities tried to divide the region along the Mississippi River. Yet Illinois settlers and Native people continued to welcome and partner with European governments, even if that meant playing the competing empires against one another in order to pursue local interests. Empire by Collaboration explores the remarkable community and distinctive creole culture of colonial Illinois Country, characterized by compromise and flexibility rather than domination and resistance. Drawing on extensive archival research, Robert Michael Morrissey demonstrates how Natives, officials, traders, farmers, religious leaders, and slaves constantly negotiated local and imperial priorities and worked purposefully together to achieve their goals. Their pragmatic intercultural collaboration gave rise to new economies, new forms of social life, and new forms of political engagement. Empire by Collaboration shows that this rugged outpost on the fringe of empire bears central importance to the evolution of early America.