Ties 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 Ties of Kinship write by Christian Raffensperger. This book was released on 2016. Ties of Kinship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Describes and analyzes the dynastic marriages of the descendants of Volodimer, the first ruler of Kyivan Rus', across medieval Europe from the tenth through the twelfth centuries and presents more than twenty-two genealogical charts with accompanying bibliographic information"--
Blood Ties and the Native Son
Blood Ties and the Native Son - 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 Blood Ties and the Native Son write by Aksana Ismailbekova. This book was released on 2017-05-22. Blood Ties and the Native Son available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthropologist explores the politics and society of Kyrgyzstan through a study of one influential man’s life. A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social life of the region. Many observers of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia have assumed that corruption, nepotism, and patron-client relations would forestall democratization. Looking at the intersection of kinship ties with political patronage, Aksana Ismailbekova finds instead that this intertwining has in fact enabled democratization—both kinship and patronage develop apace with democracy, although patronage relations may stymie individual political opinion and action. “This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on Central Asian politics and society, and by complicating dominant narratives about the dangers of weak state institutions, Ismailbekova has much to offer to the broader research project on democratization and clientelism.” —Europe-Asia Studies
Communities of Kinship
Communities 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 Communities of Kinship write by Carolyn Earle Billingsley. This book was released on 2004. Communities of Kinship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Billingsley reminds us that, contrary to the accepted notion of rugged individuals heeding the proverbial call of the open spaces, kindred groups accounted for most of the migration to the South's interior and boundary lands. In addition, she discusses how, for antebellum southerners, the religious affiliation of one's parents was the most powerful predictor of one's own spiritual leanings, with marriage being the strongest motivation to change them. Billingsley also looks at the connections between kinship and economic and political power, offering examples of how Keesee family members facilitated and consolidated their influence and wealth through kin ties.
Focality and Extension in Kinship
Focality and Extension in 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 Focality and Extension in Kinship write by Warren Shapiro. This book was released on 2018-04-20. Focality and Extension in Kinship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways—nowadays called ‘performative’—of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents, godparents; members of a trade union may refer to each other as ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. Similar performative ties are even more common among the so-called ‘tribal’ peoples that anthropologists have studied and, especially in recent years, they have received considerable attention from scholars in this field. However, these scholars tend to argue that performative kinship in the Tribal World is semantically on a par with kinship established through procreation and marriage. Harold Scheffler, long-time Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, has argued, by contrast, that procreative ties are everywhere semantically central, i.e. focal, that they provide bases from which other kinship ties are extended. Most of the essays in this volume illustrate the validity of Scheffler’s position, though two contest it, and one exemplifies the soundness of a similarly universalistic stance in gender behaviour. This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with current controversy in kinship and gender studies, as well as those who would know what anthropologists have to say about human nature. “The study of kinship once ruled the discipline of anthropology, and Hal Scheffler was one of its magisterial figures. This volumes reminds us why. Scheffler’s powerful analyses of kinship systems often conflicted with the views of his more relativist contemporaries. He cut through the fog of theory to emphasise the human essentials, namely the importance of the social bonds rooted in motherhood and fatherhood. Anthropology in its decades-long retreat from the serious study of kinship has lost a great deal. This volume points the way to a restoration.” — Peter Wood, National Association of Scholars
Culture, Creation, and Procreation
Culture, Creation, and Procreation - 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 Culture, Creation, and Procreation write by Monika Böck. This book was released on 2000. Culture, Creation, and Procreation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
