Kinship, Descent and Alliance among the Karo Batak
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Kinship, Descent and Alliance among the Karo Batak

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Kinship, Descent and Alliance among the Karo Batak

About this book

The topic of this monograph is kinship and affinal relations among the Karo Batak. My reason for selecting this topic is my belief that an understanding of the Karo system of social relations between kin and relatives by marriage is the necessary starting point for an understanding of most other aspects of Karo culture and society. Moreover, the Karo kinship system is similar to the kinship systems of numerous other peoples—including other Batak—which have become the focus of considerable anthropological interest and much theoretical debate.—From the PrefaceThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents 1
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A note on spelling and terminology
  9. Chapter One Introduction: Karoland and Its People
  10. Chapter Two The Village
  11. Chapter Three The Karo Family
  12. Chapter Four The Adat House
  13. Chapter Five Descent Groups
  14. Chapter Six Anakberu-Kalimbubu Relations, I
  15. Chapter Seven Anakberu-Kalimbubu Relations, II
  16. Chapter Eight Marriage
  17. Chapter Nine Summary
  18. Appendix I The Siwah Sada Ginting Myth: A Summary
  19. Appendix II Karo Kin Classification
  20. Appendix III A Structural Semantic Analysis of the Karo System of Kin Classification by H. W. Scheffler
  21. References
  22. Index