This text examines the evolution of kinship and social structure. Keesing considers the importance of patrilineal descent and the permutations of descent systems, matrilineal and double descent, alliance systems, cognate descent and bilateral kinship as organizing principles. Relevant analogies and examples are used throughout.

Kin Groups and Social Structure

Politics & Social Sciences

Keesing, Roger M.

Social Sciences

Harcourt College Pub.

<p>Contents~Preface~Case Examples~PART ONE     THE STUDY OF MAN: VARIATIONS ON THE THEMES OF HUMAN LIFE~PART TWO     MAN IN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE: HUMAN BIOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND THE GROWTH OF CULTURE~PART THREE     THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETIES AND THE STRUCTURE OF CULTURE ~PART FOUR     THE INDIVIDUAL, CHANGE, AND THE FUTURE~PART FIVE     REFERENCESUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READINGBIBLIOGRAPHYName IndexSubject Index</p>

New perspectives in cultural anthropology

Anthropology

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Lightning Meets The West Wind: The Malaita Massacre

Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre

CORRIS, Peter

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

"Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning and value."—William Rodman, Anthropologica"A major contribution to the ethnography and history of Malaita and Melanesia, and to the growing literature on cultural resistance. But above all, his humane and painful analysis of the meeting of peoples living in different worlds and constructing their agendas and moralities on incommensurate—and apparently equally arbitrary—principles, represents a major contribution and challenge to anthropological thought, addressing the basic issue of what it is to be human."—Fredrik Barth

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

<p>Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning and value William Rodman, Anthropologica "A major contribution to the ethnography and history of Malaita and Melanesia, and to the growing literature on cultural resistance. But above all, his humane and painful analysis of the meeting of peoples living in different worlds and constructing their agendas and moralities on incommensurate and apparently equally arbitrary principles, represents a major contribution and challenge to anthropological thought, addressing the basic issue of what it is to be human" Fredrik Barth</p>

In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own rapidly Westernizing nation, have managed to continue their ancestral ways. Drawing on fieldwork carried out over a lost 20 years, Keesing explores the phenomenological reality of world where one's group includes the living and the dead, where conversations with the spirits, and the sing of their presence and acts, are very much a part of everyday life. He describes conceptions of mana and tabu that shed revealing light on old issues regarding Oceanic religion. Keesing situates the elegant though largely implicit structures of Kwaio cosmology within a framework of the "political economy of knowledge," examining the distribution of expertise in the community and the uses of religion as ideology, and asking how symbolic systems are perpetuated and changed. Questioning some currently fashionable anthropological approaches to symbolism, myth, ritual, and cosmology--approaches Keesing characterizes as "cultural cryptography"--Kwaio Religion challenges common assumptions about cultural symbols and shared meanings.

Kwaio Religion: The Religion and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society

Religion & Spirituality

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Stanford University Press

Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective

Harcourt Australia

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Kin Groups and Social Structure

New perspectives in cultural anthropology

Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Kwaio Religion: The Religion and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective