The Versatility of Kinship
The Versatility of Kinship

Author: Linda S Cordell

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1483267202

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Studies in Anthropology: The Versatility of Kinship focuses on the dynamics involved in the special class of interpersonal ties that bind individuals to others. The selection first offers information on the variant usage in American kinship, uses of kinship in Kwaio, Solomon Islands, and incest and kinship structure. Discussions focus on incest categories in Cachama and Mamo, childhood bonds and adult residence, kinship with the dead, kinship, social identities, and behavior, and models of relatedness. The text then explores the biological, linguistic, and cultural aspects of the Hopi-Tewa system of mating in First Mesa, Arizona and the Navajo exogamic rules and preferred marriages. The publication ponders on the Kpelle negotiation of marriage and matrilateral ties and kinship and descent in the ethnic reassertion of the Eastern Creek Indians. Topics include social and cultural history, genealogy as social instrument, crystallization of the Eastern Creek community, Kpelle marriage and matrilateral ties, ethnographic background, and the negotiation of marriage and matrilateral ties. The selection is a valuable reference for anthropologists, sociologists, and readers interested in the dynamics of kinship.

A Critique of the Study of Kinship
A Critique of the Study of Kinship

Author: David Murray Schneider

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780472080519

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Schneider views kinship study as a product of Western bias and challenges its use as the universal measure of the study of social structure

Anthropological Perspectives On Kinship
Anthropological Perspectives On Kinship

Author: Ladislav Holy

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 1996-10-20

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780745309170

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This authoritative introductory text takes into account the changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing interest in culturally specific notions of personhood and gender. Holy considers the extent to which Western assumptions have guided anthropological study of kinship in the past. In the process, he reveals a growing sensitivity on the part of anthropologists to individual ideas of personhood and gender, and encourages further critical reflection on cultural bias in approaches to the subject.

Migration Theory
Migration Theory

Author: Caroline B. Brettell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1135285446

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During the last decade the issue of migration has increased in global prominence and has caused controversy among the host countries around the world. Continuing their interdisciplinary approach, editors Catherine Brettell and James Hollifield have included revised essays from the first edition in such fields as anthropology, political science, and history. This edition also features new essays by a demographer, geopgrapher, and sociologist.

Migration Theory
Migration Theory

Author: Caroline Brettell

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780415926119

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First published in 2000

Studies in Behavioral Anthropology
Studies in Behavioral Anthropology

Author: Theodore D. Graves

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780759105751

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This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.

Hunters in Transition
Hunters in Transition

Author: Marek Zvelebil

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-18

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780521109574

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Hunters in Transition analyses the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming.

Rural Development And Migration
Rural Development And Migration

Author: Sally E. Findley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-16

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1000310353

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Perhaps because I grew up on a farm in Ohio, I have long been interested in rural development. Although I fll'St became a migrant at the age of 17 when I left the farm to continue my studies in a city college, I was not aware of the relation between rural development and migration until many years later when I began studying patterns of urban and rural poverty. This research has grown out of my continuing investigation of the ways that migration .has been seen as both a response to chronic conditions of rural poverty and a factor potentially exacerbating urban poverty conditions. If governments wanted to deal with urban poverty, they would want to restrict urban in-migration, yet if they reduced urban in-migration, this would remove one of the important means available to persons seeking to raise themselves out of rural impoverishment. This would clearly be a no-win situation for the rural poor; the only way to deal fairly with both urban and rural poverty would be to foster socio-economic development of rural areas. Thus, I became interested in studying the patterns of rural development which actually have had an effect on the migration decisions of rural families.

Basic Concepts In Family Therapy
Basic Concepts In Family Therapy

Author: Linda Berg-Cross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1317774043

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First published in 1987. Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Introductory Text presents seventeen basic psychological concepts that you may use in understanding your family or, if you are a member of the helping professions, your clients' families. Each chapter focuses on a single concept using material from three sources: family therapy literature; basic psychological and clinical research studies, and cross-cultural research studies. By combining the findings of family therapy practitioners with the empirical findings of basic psychological researchers and cross-cultural researchers we can deepen our understanding of the usefulness of each of these constructs, as well-as their limitations.

Institutions and Economic Change in Southeast Asia
Institutions and Economic Change in Southeast Asia

Author: Colin Barlow

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 1999-12-21

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781782542490

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This work scrutinizes the role of institutional change, with special reference to Southeast Asia. It suggests that the nature of institutional arrangements such as households, community groups, firms and formal governance systems can significantly affect human activity and economic success.