Close Kin

Author : Clare B. Dunkle
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466803824

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Close Kin by Clare B. Dunkle Pdf

The goblin King's face lit up with amusement. "Seylin was proposing marriage to you," he cried, "and you wanted him to change into a cat?" A thrilling and magical sequel to The Hollow Kingdom For years Emily has been living happily in the underground goblin kingdom. Now she is old enough to marry, but when her childhood friend Seylin proposes, she doesn't even pay attention. Devastated, Seylin leaves the kingdom to find his own people: the elves. Emily sets out in search of him. But they accidentally awaken hatreds and prejudices that have slumbered for hundreds of years, and soon two worlds are brought onto a dangerous collision course. Clare B. Dunkle once again draws readers deep into the magical realm that Newbery-winning author Lloyd Alexander calls "as persuasive as it is remarkable."

Author : Susana M. Morris
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813935515

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Close Kin and Distant Relatives by Susana M. Morris Pdf

The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks. The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.

Author : Paul John Frandsen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9788763507783

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Incestuous and Close-kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia by Paul John Frandsen Pdf

For both ancient Egypt and Iran, as a cultural feature, incestuous relationships are usually dismissed on the grounds that they are only found as the exception, being allowed for royalty as representatives for the divine on earth, or that the evidence for such relationships are unreliable. Neither view, from the perspective of this study, is tenable. This work examines the evidence for marriage and sexual relations between siblings, and between a parent and child, in ancient Egypt and pre-Islamic Iran. The book restricts its examination to incestuous relationships between members of non-royal nuclear families and puts forth arguments against the generally held axiom that the prohibition of incest is a universal phenomenon.

Author : Alfred Henry Huth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385255128

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The Marriage of Near Kin by Alfred Henry Huth Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Alfred Henry Huth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Consanguinity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062008235

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The Marriage of Near Kin by Alfred Henry Huth Pdf

Author : Patrick McConvell,Piers Kelly,Sébastien Lacrampe
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760461645

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Skin, Kin and Clan by Patrick McConvell,Piers Kelly,Sébastien Lacrampe Pdf

Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.

Author : S. Craig Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199586073

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Applied Evolutionary Psychology by S. Craig Roberts Pdf

This is the first book to overtly consider how basic evolutionary thinking is being applied to a wide range of special social, economic, and technical problems. It draws together a collection of renowned academics from a very disparate set of fields, whose common interest lies in using evolutionary thinking to inform their research.

Author : Monika Schreiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004274259

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The Comfort of Kin by Monika Schreiber Pdf

In The Comfort of Kin Monika Schreiber presents a study of the social and religious life of the modern Samaritans, with an emphasis on the kinship system and marriage patterns of the community.

Author : Frank K. Salter
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781571813190

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Risky Transactions by Frank K. Salter Pdf

Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these types of trust is examined by a leading scholar and compared with the expectations of neo-Darwinian theory, in particular the theories of kin selection and ethnic nepotism. The result is a fascinating, theoretically focused yet empirically eclectic contribution to the overlapping fields of human ethnology, evolutionary psychology, and bio-politics. The common thread uniting these diverse phenomena is a trusting relationship predicated on altruism. Chapters examine the strengths and limits of human trust under various stressers and temptations to defect. By exploring the relationship between kin and ethnic altruism and showing its sensitivity to culture, Risky Transactions recasts the evolutionary approach to ethnicity as a blend of primordial and instrumental factors.

Author : Douglas W. Mock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674012852

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More Than Kin and Less Than Kind by Douglas W. Mock Pdf

Mock tells readers what scientists have discovered about the disturbing side of family conflice in the natural world. He offers a rare perspective on the family as testing ground for the evolutionary limits of selfishness.

Author : Helena Wahlström Henriksson,Klara Goedecke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811607929

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Close Relations by Helena Wahlström Henriksson,Klara Goedecke Pdf

This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are surrounded by boundaries that both constrain and enable their practical, symbolical and legal formation. Carefully contextualising close relations in relation to different national contexts, but also in relation to gender, sexuality, race, religion and dis/ability, the volume points to the importance of and variations in how close relations are lived, understood and negotiated. Grounded in a number of academic areas and disciplines, ranging from legal studies, sociology and social work to literary studies and ethnology, this volume also highlights the value of using inter- and multidisciplinary scholarly approaches in research about close relations. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Marion L East,Martin Dehnhard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461459279

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Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 12 by Marion L East,Martin Dehnhard Pdf

Three invited international experts present overviews of recent developments in key fields and will submit chapters for the book. Jane Hurst from Liverpool University in the UK presents an overview on the function, mechanisms and evolution of chemical signals, Penelope Hawkins from the University of Western Australia will detail the importance of male odors in female mate-choice and the priming of female reproduction, and Francesco Bonadonna from CNRS-CEFE, Montpellier in France presents an overview of the importance of chemical signals for the formation and maintenance of pair-bonds, parent – offspring recognition and navigation in seabirds. Select submissions are invited by the scientific committee to contribute chapters. ​

Author : David Westneat,Charles W. Fox,Charles Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195331929

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Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology by David Westneat,Charles W. Fox,Charles Fox Pdf

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology presents a comprehensive treatment of the evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors and is suitable as a graduate-level text and as a sourcebook for professional scientists.

Author : Chekki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004666467

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Modernization and Kin Network by Chekki Pdf

Author : Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317989301

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Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism by Steven Vertovec Pdf

The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of anthropological studies concerning these topics. This has particularly been the case since the 1970s, when anthropologists developed a keen interest in the subject of ethnicity, especially in post-migration communities. Since the 1990s, migrant transnationalism has become one of the most fashionable topics. There is still much to do in research and theory surrounding this field, not least with regard to contemporary public debates around multiculturalism, immigration and ‘integration’ policy. This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions – both theoretical and methodological – for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism, including innovative ways of examining diversity discourses, urban conditions, social complexities, scales of analysis, transnational marriages, entangled politics and interwoven cultures. This book was published as a special issue of the Ethnic and Racial Studies.