The Metamorphoses of Kinship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metamorphoses of Kinship write by Maurice Godelier. This book was released on 2012-03-03. The Metamorphoses of Kinship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux. In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualizes these developments, surveying the accumulated experience of humanity with regard to such phenomena as the organization of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the evolution of Western conjugal and familial traditions from their roots in the nineteenth century to the present. The conclusion he draws is that it is never the case that a man and a woman are sufficient on their own to raise a child, and nowhere are relations of kinship or the family the keystone of society. Godelier argues that the changes of the last thirty years do not herald the disappearance or death agony of kinship, but rather its remarkable metamorphosis—one that, ironically, is bringing us closer to the “traditional” societies studied by ethnologists.
The Metamorphoses of Kinship
The Metamorphoses of Kinship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metamorphoses of Kinship write by Maurice Godelier. This book was released on 2012-03-03. The Metamorphoses of Kinship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux. In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualizes these developments, surveying the accumulated experience of humanity with regard to such phenomena as the organization of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the evolution of Western conjugal and familial traditions from their roots in the nineteenth century to the present. The conclusion he draws is that it is never the case that a man and a woman are sufficient on their own to raise a child, and nowhere are relations of kinship or the family the keystone of society. Godelier argues that the changes of the last thirty years do not herald the disappearance or death agony of kinship, but rather its remarkable metamorphosis—one that, ironically, is bringing us closer to the “traditional” societies studied by ethnologists.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claude Lévi-Strauss write by Maurice Godelier. This book was released on 2018-08-07. Claude Lévi-Strauss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology As a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Lévi-Strauss’s assistant. Since then, Godelier has drawn on this experience to develop a profound and intimate grasp on the writings of his former teacher, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched, Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought will prove indispensable to students of Lévi-Strauss and to structural anthropologists more generally. It is a compelling and comprehensive study destined to become the definitive work on the evolution of Lévi-Strauss’s ideas, at the heart of which lies his analysis of kinship and myth.
TRANSFORMATIONS OF KINSHIP
TRANSFORMATIONS OF KINSHIP - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook TRANSFORMATIONS OF KINSHIP write by GODELIER MAURICE. This book was released on 1998-05-17. TRANSFORMATIONS OF KINSHIP available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume's fifteen contributors argue that kinship analysis should remain fundamental to the development of anthropological theory and to the understanding of past and contemporary societies. They contend that both aspects of kinship analysis, the "hot" (issues of body, gender, and power) and the "cool" (categories and terminologies) need to be pursued.
Metamorphoses of the City
Metamorphoses of the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metamorphoses of the City write by Pierre Manent. This book was released on 2013-09-23. Metamorphoses of the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europe's most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition since ancient times to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a reflection on what it means to be modern. Manent's genealogy of the nation-state begins with the Greek city-state, the polis. With its creation, humans ceased to organize themselves solely by family and kinship systems and instead began to live politically. Eventually, as the polis exhausted its possibilities in warfare and civil strife, cities evolved into empires, epitomized by Rome, and empires in turn gave way to the universal Catholic Church and finally the nation-state. Through readings of Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, and others, Manent charts an intellectual history of these political forms, allowing us to see that the dynamic of competition among them is a central force in the evolution of Western civilization. Scarred by the legacy of world wars, submerged in an increasingly technical transnational bureaucracy, indecisive in the face of proliferating crises of representative democracy, the European nation-state, Manent says, is nearing the end of its line. What new metamorphosis of the city will supplant it remains to be seen.
