Crow Omaha New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis 1st Edition by Thomas Trautmann, Peter Whiteley 9780816599318 0816599319
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ISBN 10: 0816599319
ISBN 13: 9780816599318
Author: Thomas R. Trautmann; Peter M. Whiteley
The “Crow-Omaha problem” has perplexed anthropologists since it was first described by Lewis Henry Morgan in 1871. During his worldwide survey of kinship systems, Morgan learned with astonishment that some Native American societies call some relatives of different generations by the same terms. Why? Intergenerational “skewing” in what came to be named “Crow” and “Omaha” systems has provoked a wealth of anthropological arguments, from Rivers to Radcliffe-Brown, from Lowie to Lévi-Strauss, and many more. Crow-Omaha systems, it turns out, are both uncommon and yet found distributed around the world. For anthropologists, cracking the Crow-Omaha problem is critical to understanding how social systems transform from one type into another, both historically in particular settings and evolutionarily in the broader sweep of human relations. This volume examines the Crow-Omaha problem from a variety of perspectives—historical, linguistic, formalist, structuralist, culturalist, evolutionary, and phylogenetic. It focuses on the regions where Crow-Omaha systems occur: Native North America, Amazonia, West Africa, Northeast and East Africa, aboriginal Australia, northeast India, and the Tibeto-Burman area. The international roster of authors includes leading experts in their fields. The book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of Crow-Omaha kinship and carries forward the work of the landmark volume Transformations of Kinship, published in 1998. Intended for students and scholars alike, it is composed of brief, accessible chapters that respect the complexity of the ideas while presenting them clearly. The work serves as both a new benchmark in the explanation of kinship systems and an introduction to kinship studies for a new generation of students. Series Note: Formerly titled Amerind Studies in Archaeology, this series has recently been expanded and retitled Amerind Studies in Anthropology to incorporate a high quality and number of anthropology titles coming in to the series in addition to those in archaeology.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: A Classic Problem
Chapter 2: Crossness and Crow-Omaha
Chapter 3: Tetradic Theory and Omaha Systems
Chapter 4: Omaha and “Omaha”
Chapter 5: Crow-Omaha Kinship in North America: A Puebloan Perspective
Chapter 6: Phylogenetic Analysis of Sociocultural Data: Identifying Transformation Vectors for Kinship Systems
Chapter 7: A Tetradic Starting Point for Skewing? Marriage as a Generational Contract: Reflections on Sister
Chapter 8: Crow- (and Omaha-)Type Kinship Terminology: The Fanti Case
Chapter 9: Deep-Time Historical Contexts of Crow and Omaha Systems: Perspectives from Africa
Chapter 10: The Making and Unmaking of “Crow-Omaha” Kinship in Central Brazil(ian Ethnology)
Chapter 11: Schemas of Kinship Relations and the Construction of Social Categories among the Mebêngôkrê K
Chapter 12: Omaha Skewing in Australia: Overlays, Dynamism, and Change
Chapter 13: “Horizontal” and “Vertical” Skewing: Similar Objectives, Two Solutions?
Chapter 14: Crow-Omaha, in Thickness and in Thin
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