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About this book
Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I — Terminological Change
- Chapter 1 — Kinship as Classification: Towards a Paradigm of Change
- Chapter 2 — Terminology and Alliance in India: Tribal Systems and the North-South Problem
- Chapter 3 — From Tetradic Society to Dispersed Alliance
- Chapter 4 — Why do Societies Abandon Cross-Cousin Marriage?
- Chapter 5 — Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia
- Chapter 6 — Indo-European Kinship Terminologies in Europe: Trajectories of Change
- Part II — Crow-Omaha
- Chapter 7 — On the Origin of Crow-Omaha Terminologies
- Chapter 8 — Substitutability of Kin and the Crow-Omaha Problem
- Chapter 9 — The Evolution of Kinship Terminologies: Non-prescriptive Forms of Asymmetric Alliance in Indonesia
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Publications on Kinship by Robert Parkin
- Glossary
- Index