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Filiation And Affiliation
Contributor(s): Scheffler, Harold W. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0813337615     ISBN-13: 9780813337616
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $32.29  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2000
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Annotation: In this wide ranging theoretical and ethnographic-comparative study, Scheffler attempts to show that there is much more order than previously suspected in the subject matter usually dealt with under the rubrics of kinship and descent. The focus is on how group constitution conditions other features of social relations within and between groups, especially the potential for group solidarity and for intergroup conflict. The book is a contribution not only to studies of kinship and descent, but also to studies of intergroup or political relations in small-scale societies.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family
Dewey: 306.83
LCCN: 00043788
Lexile Measure: 1600(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.66 lbs) 216 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
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Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects continue routinely to be encountered in the course of empirical ethnographic research and to be reported upon in ethnographies ? or they are ignored at the peril of ethnographers pathetically unprepared to deal with them. Moreover, considerable evidence has accumulated that systems of social relations built on relations of genealogical connection exhibit a remarkable degree of orderliness about which it is possible already to make a number of substantial empirical generalizations, especially about the qualities of social relations within and between groups. As the masters of the subject always stressed, kinship and political and jural organization are closely interdependent structures. In this wide-ranging theoretical and comparative-ethnographic study, Harold Scheffler demonstrates that there is a simple reason why detection of this order has been too long delayed and has given rise to more destructive than to constructive debate in social anthropology.
 
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