Kinship, Networks, and Exchange: 12 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 12)

Cambridge University Press, 9/3/1998
EAN 9780521590211, ISBN10: 0521590213

Hardcover, 352 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English

This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.

1. Revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange with network approaches
Part I. Representing Kinship Dynamics, Material Flow, and Economic Co-operation
2. The grapevine forest
kinship, status and wealth in a Mediterranean community (Selo, Croatia)
3. Kinship, property transmission, and stratification in Javanese villages
4. Ambilateral sideness among the Sinhalese
marriage networks and property flows in Pul Eliya (Sri Lanka)
5. Alliance, exchange, and the organization of boat corporations in Lamalera (E. Indonesia)
Part II. Individual Embeddedness and the Larger Structure of Kinship and Exchange Networks
6. Experimental flexibility of cultural models
kinship knowledge and networks among individual Khasi (Meghalaya, N. E. India)
7. Moral economy and self-interest
Kinship, friendship and exchange among the Pokot (N. W. Kenya)
8. Risk, uncertainty and economic exchange in a pastoral community of the Andean Highlands (Huancar, N. W. Argentina)
Part III. Marriage, Exchange and Alliance
Reconsidering Bridewealth and Dowry
9. Wealth transfers occasioned by marriage
a comparative reconsideration
10. Prestations and progeny
the consolidation of well-being among the Bakkarwal of Jammu and Kashmir
11. 'We Don't Sell our Daughters'
a report on money and marriage exchange in the township of Larantuka (Flores, E. Indonesia)
Part IV. Emergence, Development and Transformation of Kin-Based Exchange Systems
12. Applications of the minimum spanning tree problem to network analysis
13. Local rules, global structures
models of exclusive straight sister-exchange
14. The capacity and constraints of kinship in the development of the Enga Tee Ceremonial exchange network (Papua New Guinea Highlands)
15. Between war and peace
gift exchange and commodity barter in the central and fringe Highlands of Papua New Guinea.