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1 online resource |
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Amerind Studies in Anthropology |
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Amerind studies in anthropology
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Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Kinship Notation -- Linguistic Note -- 1. A Classic Problem -- Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley -- Crow-Omaha in Theory -- 2. Crossness and Crow-Omaha -- Thomas R. Trautmann -- 3. Tetradic Theory and Omaha Systems -- Nicholas J. Allen -- North America -- 4. Omaha and “Omaha� -- R.H. Barnes -- 5. Crow-Omaha Kinship in North America: A Puebloan Perspective -- Peter M. Whiteley -- 6. Phylogenetic Analysis of Sociocultural Data: Identifying Transformation Vectors for Kinship Systems -- Ward C. Wheeler, Peter M. Whiteley, and Theodore Powers |
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Africa7. A Tetradic Starting Point for Skewing? Marriage as a Generational Contract: Reflections on Sister-Exchange in Africa -- Wendy James -- 8. Crow-(and Omaha- ) TypeKinship Terminology: The Fanti Case -- David B. Kronenfeld -- 9. Deep-Time Historical Contexts of Crow and Omaha Systems Perspectives from Africa -- Christopher Ehret -- South America -- 10. The Making and Unmaking of “Crow-Omaha� Kinship in Central Brazil(ian Ethnology) -- Marcela Coelho de Souza |
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11. Schemas of Kinship Relations and the Construction of Social Categories among the Mebîng�krî Kayapó -- Terence TurnerAustralia -- 12. Omaha Skewing in Australia Overlays, Dynamism, and Change -- Patrick McConvell -- 13. “Horizontal� and “Vertical� Skewing Similar Objectives, Two Solutions? -- Laurent Dousset -- Afterword -- 14. Crow-Omaha, in Thickness and in Thin -- Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Topics Index -- Peoples Index -- Persons Index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Crow Indians -- Kinship
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Omaha Indians -- Kinship
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Crow Indians -- Social networks
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Omaha Indians -- Social networks
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Kinship -- Great Plains -- History
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Social structure -- Great Plains -- History
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Social evolution -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Kinship
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Social evolution
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Social structure
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Great Plains
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Trautmann, Thomas R
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Whiteley, Peter M
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LC no. |
2012006699 |
ISBN |
0816599319 |
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9780816599318 |
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