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New misdirections in kinship studies.(Universities)
IT SEEMS WIDELY to be acknowledged, especially in conservative circles, that social science departments in prestigious American universities are now situated far to the Left, and that cultural anthropology is the discipline most profoundly tilted in this direction. I take it as recognised as well that much of the scholarship thus produced is highly suspect--indeed, is utter nonsense. "Goddess Theory" is one of the best examples of this, and we now have important literary exposes of it, like Lotte Motz's The Faces of the Goddess and Cynthia Eller's The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory.
But Goddess Theory is a product of classical archaeology hijacked by women's ...
- Franklin, Sarah & Susan McKinnon (eds). Relative values: reconfiguring kinship...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Modell, Judith S. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...contributors emphasize the history of kinship studies, others the concepts that have guided...these essays do not reconfigure kinship studies so much as remind us that kinship...Moreover, his essay puts emotion into kinship studies, a point underemphasized in the volume...
- Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Comparative Family Studies Diefenbach, Heike January 1, 2005 700+ words
...RELATIVE VALUES: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Durham. NC: Duke University Press...International Symposium 'New Directions in Kinship Studies: A Core Concept Revisited' which...one type focussing on the history of kinship studies as a special branch within anthropology...
- Franklin, Sarah, and Susan McKinnon, eds. Relative Values: Reconfiguring...
- Magazine article from: International Social Science Review Hirsch, Mike June 22, 2003 700+ words
...pages. Paper, $21.95. Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies examines the historical importance of kinship as both a...Values is a significant collection of work on the state of kinship studies in anthropology today. It offers succinct summaries of...
- Family: Modernist Anthropological Theory
- Dictionary definition from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Weismantel, Mary January 1, 2005 700+ words
...identity that the decline of interest in kinship studies during the latter decades of the twentieth...revitalized but vastly changed form of kinship studies at century's end seemed to indicate...twenty-first century. The history of kinship studies is a contentious one, filled with...
- After kinship.(book)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute McKinnon, Susan September 1, 2005 700+ words
...distinctions that have been central to kinship studies--biological v. social, sex v...Carsten begins with the recent focus in kinship studies on the concept of the house because...are also those that create gender, kinship studies has much to offer--and should be...
- Kinship
- Dictionary definition from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas De Jorio, Rosa January 1, 2005 700+ words
...political economy. In the early twenty-first century kinship studies, profoundly redefined, have experienced a revival, also...discipline. One major systematic trend within the traditions of kinship studies is represented by descent theory, the dominant paradigm...
- Discussions around a sand-drawing: creations of agency and society in...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Rio, Knut September 1, 2005 700+ words
...anthropology. I will use a well-known case from the arena of kinship studies, the Ambrym 'six-section marriage class' system as...revolutionized the theory about 'marriage-classes' in kinship studies. Deacon found that Rivers had been completely mistaken...
- Enquete sur la parente.
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Saul, Mahir March 1, 1996 700+ words
...book is largely written as a history of the concepts of kinship studies, starting with Maine and Morgan and ending in the 1970s...is on terminology. Kroeber is credited with having moved kinship studies towards formal analysis. In his debate with Rivers, Kroeber...
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