The Owners Of Kinship

Author : Luiz Costa
Publisher : Malinowski Monographs
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0997367598

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The Owners of Kinship by Luiz Costa Pdf

The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an "owner" and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationship is centered around the bond created between the feeder and the fed. Building on anthropological studies of the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of food and its role in establishing relations of asymmetrical mutuality and kinship, this book breaks theoretical ground for studies in Amazonia and beyond. By investigating how the feeding relation traverses Kanamari society--from the relation between women and the pets they raise, shaman and familiar spirit, mother and child, chiefs and followers, to those between the Brazilian state and the Kanamari--The Owners of Kinship reveals how the mutuality of kinship is determined by the asymmetry of ownership.

Author : Rupert Stasch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520256859

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Society of Others by Rupert Stasch Pdf

"In this timely commentary on the ideas of difference, strangeness, and Western contact, Stasch weaves ethnographic materials together with theoretical framing in an exceptionally clear and compelling way. A highly original, important and, in fact, astonishing piece of scholarship."--Bambi Schieffelin, author of The Give and Take of Everyday Life "In this remarkable ethnography, Rupert Stasch takes us to the lowlands of West Papua and into the lives of people who have built a social world out of their relationships with strange and potentially dangerous others. The Korowai are classic inhabitants of the "savage slot," still dogged by their designation as Stone Age primitives. Instead of flipping the script and arguing that the Korowai are just like everyone else, Stasch draws far-reaching lessons from the particularities of Korowai life. Stasch writes with grace and clarity on the ambivalent ways in which the Korowai confront, evade, and embrace an otherness that resides not just in words, food, places, and human bodies, but also in the pasts and futures brought to mind by these material signs. Analyzing Korowai sign use as a concrete, historical process, he charts the passage between intimacy and alterity that Korowai undergo in their encounters not only with spirits and Indonesian soldiers, but also with children, husbands, and wives. Some of what Stasch describes may seem strange and even disturbing. But in pondering Stasch's findings, one gradually comes to see the making of persons and relationships in an entirely new light. Gone is the old debate between biological determination and cultural freedom; in its place is an approach that affirms the multiple histories that converge in and flow from a life. Erudite, empathetic, and unremittingly smart, Society of Others recasts the very meaning of kinship--and makes a case for the power of what anthropologists do."--Danilyn Rutherford, author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier

Author : Marc Brightman,Carlos Fausto,Vanessa Grotti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781785330834

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Ownership and Nurture by Marc Brightman,Carlos Fausto,Vanessa Grotti Pdf

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.

Author : Kathryn A. Mariner
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520299559

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Contingent Kinship by Kathryn A. Mariner Pdf

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States. With a unique focus on the role that social workers and other professionals play in mediating relationships between expectant mothers and prospective adopters, Kathryn A. Mariner develops the concept of “intimate speculation,” a complex assemblage of investment, observation, and anticipation that shapes the adoption process into an elaborate mechanism for creating, dissolving, and exchanging imagined futures. Shifting the emphasis from adoption’s outcome to its conditions of possibility, this insightful ethnography places the practice of domestic adoption within a temporal, economic, and affective framework in order to interrogate the social inequality and power dynamics that render adoption—and the families it produces—possible.

Author : Janet Finch,Jennifer Mason
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1857282779

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Passing on by Janet Finch,Jennifer Mason Pdf

This major study examines the increasing significance of inheritance for life in ordinary families.

Author : Eugenia Kim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328987822

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The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim Pdf

"From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart"--

Author : Anna-Lisa Cox
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316075695

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A Stronger Kinship by Anna-Lisa Cox Pdf

Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.

Author : Sylvia Vatuk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520331440

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Kinship and Urbanization by Sylvia Vatuk Pdf

This 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 1972.

Author : Ákos Östör,Lina Fruzzetti,Steve Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106012408461

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Concepts of Person by Ákos Östör,Lina Fruzzetti,Steve Barnett Pdf

Using rich ethnographic detail, this work looks at the extent to which new models of kinship, caste and marriage translate into regional and Indian Models. The contributors, all distinguished scholars of South Asia, tackle different geographical areas and such diverse topics as hierarchy, forms of address, ritual, household and widowhood. This edition has a new introduction which discusses current research done in these fields. This book is essential to better understand kinship, the possibilities for cross-cultural comparison, and ways of looking at social change.

Author : Patty Krawec
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506478265

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Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec Pdf

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history. This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and to unravel the history we have been taught.

Author : Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812249385

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Fragile Families by Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez Pdf

Fragile Families examines the precarious position of Latina/o families who are simultaneously caught up in systems of child welfare and immigration enforcement, focusing on the central role of child welfare decision-making in producing and maintaining boundaries of citizenship, race, and national belonging in the United States.

Author : J. Van Velsen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Politics F Kinship by J. Van Velsen Pdf

Author : J. Van Velsen,Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Politics Of Kinship: Astudy In Social Manipulation Among The Lakeside Tonga Of Nyasaland by J. Van Velsen,Rhodes-Livingstone Institute Pdf

Author : Linda Stone
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781459623910

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Kinship and Gender by Linda Stone Pdf

Designed for undergraduate courses in kinship, gender, or the two combined, Linda Stone's Kinship and Gender is the product of years of teaching. The topic of kinship comes alive when linked to gender issues; conversely, the cross-cultural study o...

Author : Richard M. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521522196

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Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle by Richard M. Smith Pdf

Essays on land transfer in English rural communities over the period 1250-1850.