The Versatility of Kinship

Essays Presented to Harry W. Basehart

Linda S Cordell, Stephen Beckerman

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781483227931
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483267203
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• The Versatility of Kinship: Essays Presented to Harry W. Basehart
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Harry W. Basehart: An Appreciation
• Bibliography of Harry W. Basehart
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Variant Usage in American Kinship: The Nomenclátor Effect
• Chapter 2. The Uses of Kinship: Kwaio, Solomon Islands
• Chapter 3. Incest and Kinship Structure
• Chapter 4. The Hopi–Tewa System of Mating on First Mesa, Arizona: Some Biological, Linguistic, and Cultural Aspects
• Chapter 5. Navajo Exogamic Rules and Preferred Marriages
• Chapter 6. The Kpelle Negotiation of Marriage and Matrilateral Ties
• Chapter 7. Kinship and Descent in the Ethnic Reassertion of the Eastern Creek Indians
• Chapter 8. Kinship Ties and the Preferred Adaptive Strategies of Urban Migrants
• Chapter 9. Kin Networks and Family Strategies: Working Class Portuguese Families in New England
• Chapter 10. Familienpolitik: Alliance in a Closed Corporate Community
• Chapter 11. Kinship and Social Organization in Tierra del Fuego: Evolutionary Consequences
• Chapter 12. Population Regulation among the Bokkos Fulani
• Chapter 13. Navajo Political Economy before Fort Sumner
• Chapter 14. Matrilineal Ideology: The Economic Activities of Women in Luapula, Zambia
• Chapter 15. The Resilience of Matrilineality: Gwembe and Plateau Tonga Adaptations
• Index