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Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory
The Construction of an Ethnographic Fantasy
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Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory
The Construction of an Ethnographic Fantasy
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Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception "partible paternity" within Amazonian Indian communities. "Partible paternity" is the idea that several sexual acts are necessary to produce a fetus and that the mother may have these with several men, who in turn have several sexual partners as well. Victorian anthropologists viewed this situation as "group marriage," a hypothetical state in which individual marriage and the family did not exist and which, presumably, once characterized Western society. The notion of "group marriage" was demolished by 1920, when it was shown that individual marriage and the family exist nearly everywhere. More recently, however, the idea has been resurrected by Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine in their book Cultures of Multiple Fathers. This book argues that Beckerman and Valentine are completely wrong-in Amazonia, the family exists everywhere, and the occasional trysts which result in shared paternity are subject to male sexual jealousy.
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Yes, you can access Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory by Warren Shapiro in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Three Primitivist Projects
- Chapter Two The Grand Claims of Beckerman and Valentine
- Chapter Three The Northwest Amazon Cases
- Chapter Four Other Pertinent Cases: General Considerations 1
- Chapter Five Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Simpliciter
- Chapter Six Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Stemming from Partible Paternity
- Chapter Seven Evidence Re the Residential and Symbolic Isolation of the Sexually Bonded Pair and Dependent Offspring
- Chapter Eight Evidence Re Sexual Jealousy
- Chapter Nine Evidence Re the Denigration of Women
- Chapter Ten Miscellaneous Evidence
- Chapter Eleven Conclusion
- Bibliography