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Partible paternity and anthropological theory : the construction of an ethnographic fantasy

Title
Partible paternity and anthropological theory : the construction of an ethnographic fantasy / Warren Shapiro.
Author
Shapiro, Warren.
Publication
Lanham : University Press of America, [2009], ©2009.

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Description
ix, 67 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Indians of South America > Kinship
  • Indians of South America > Sexual behavior
  • Paternity
  • Conception
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. Three Primitivist Projects -- 2. The Grand Claims of Beckerman and Valentine -- 3. The Northwest Amazon Cases -- 4. Other Pertinent Cases: General Considerations -- 5. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Simpliciter -- 6. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Stemming from Partible Paternity -- 7. Evidence Re the Residential and Symbolic Isolation of the Sexually Bonded Pair and Dependent Offspring -- 8. Evidence Re Sexual Jealousy -- 9. Evidence Re the Denigration of Women -- 10. Miscellaneous Evidence -- 11. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780761845324 (paperback : alk. paper)
  • 0761845321 (paperback : alk. paper)
  • 9780761845331 (eISBN)
  • 076184533X (eISBN)
LCCN
40016969170
OCLC
  • ocn316827975
  • 316827975
  • SCSB-5483314
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries