Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle
Author: Richard M. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-08
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780521522199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on land transfer in English rural communities over the period 1250-1850.
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The Laws and Economics of Confucianism
Author: Taisu Zhang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1107141117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China's lagging development in preindustrial times.
The Owners of Kinship
Author: Luiz Costa
Publisher: Malinowski Monographs
Published: 2017-10-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780997367591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an "owner" and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationship is centered around the bond created between the feeder and the fed. Building on anthropological studies of the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of food and its role in establishing relations of asymmetrical mutuality and kinship, this book breaks theoretical ground for studies in Amazonia and beyond. By investigating how the feeding relation traverses Kanamari society--from the relation between women and the pets they raise, shaman and familiar spirit, mother and child, chiefs and followers, to those between the Brazilian state and the Kanamari--The Owners of Kinship reveals how the mutuality of kinship is determined by the asymmetry of ownership.
Introduction to the Science of Kinship
Author: Murray J. Leaf
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-12-30
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1793632383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is associated with interrelated definitions of social roles and relations. These roles and relations have four specific logical properties: reciprocity, transitivity, boundedness, and imaginary spatial dimensionality. These properties allow individuals to use them in communication to create ongoing, agreed-upon, organizations. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and mathematics.
After Servitude
Author: Mareike Winchell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0520386434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreface -- Introduction -- Claiming kinship -- Gifting land -- Producing property -- Grounding indigeneity -- Demanding return -- Reviving exchange -- Conclusion : property's afterlives.
The Claims of Kinfolk
Author: Dylan C. Penningroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2004-07-21
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0807862134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant differences between the African and American contexts. Property ownership was widespread among slaves across the antebellum South, as slaves seized the small opportunities for ownership permitted by their masters. While there was no legal framework to protect or even recognize slaves' property rights, an informal system of acknowledgment recognized by both blacks and whites enabled slaves to mark the boundaries of possession. In turn, property ownership--and the negotiations it entailed--influenced and shaped kinship and community ties. Enriching common notions of slave life, Penningroth reveals how property ownership engendered conflict as well as solidarity within black families and communities. Moreover, he demonstrates that property had less to do with individual legal rights than with constantly negotiated, extralegal social ties.
Property in Social Continuity
Author: Franz von Benda-Beckmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9004287175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism. The author proposes a new anthropological approach to law, property and inheritance. After the description of the Minangkabau socio-political organization and the development of legal and administrative pluralism, three chapters are devoted to property and inheritance proper. First the ideal legal systems are described. Then he illustrates how the Minangkabau actually handle their property and inheritance affairs, and how the various regulating mechanisms have changed through history. Finally the different agents creating and changing legal conceptions are treated in historical perspective. In his conclusions the author shows how the traditional system of common holding and distributing of property by matrilineal descent groups is slowly being undermined through an increasing monetarization and consequent individualization of property relationships which finds its expression in the form of new legislation. This development is reflected in the conceptual system where the formerly predominant diachronic dimension of property relationships is slowly abolished and where property rights are increasingly reified.
Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-07-13
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9004435581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNordic Inheritance Law through the Ages – Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies explores the significance of inheritance law from medieval times to the present through topical and in-depth studies that bring life to historical and contemporary inheritance practices. The contributions cover three themes: status of persons and options in the process of property devolution; wills, gift-giving and legal disputes as means to shape the working of the law; processes of inheritance legislation. The authors focus on instances where legal strategies of various actors particularly reveal inheritance law as a contested and yet constrained space of action, and somewhat surprisingly show similar solutions to family law issues dealt with in other Western European countries. Contributors are: Simone Abram, Gitte Meldgaard Abrahamsen, Per Andersen, Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir, John Asland, Knut Dørum, Thomas Eeg, Ian Peter Grohse, Marianne Holdgaard, Astrid Mellem Johnsen, Már Jónsson, Mia Korpiola, Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Auður Magnúsdóttir, Bodil Selmer, Helle I. M. Sigh, and Miriam Tveit.
Matrilineal Kinship
Author: David Murray Schneider
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 792
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKKinship in Europe
Author: David Warren Sabean
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781845452889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the publication of Philippe Ariès' book, 'Centuries of Childhood', there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. The essays in this text explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the 18th century.
