Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
October 2008
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The intent of this collection of original essays is to revitalize the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. The collection combines studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources. This book marks the emergence of a new 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.
- Approaches economic and social exchange at new level of analysis - that of large-scale social networks and micro-macro linkage
- Original case studies from intensive fieldwork and restudies of classical ethnographic cases using new network analysis techniques
- Formal approaches and empirical applications unified within general framework for comparing social organization and social embedding of economy
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October 2008Paperback
9780521084741
356 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.56kg
44 b/w illus. 3 maps 13 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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.
