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

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Author / Creator:	Shapiro, Warren.
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.
Description:	ix, 67 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Kinship. Indians of South America -- Sexual behavior. Paternity. Conception. Conception. Indians of South America -- Kinship. Indians of South America -- Sexual behavior. Paternity.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7779310

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ISBN:	9780761845324 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0761845321 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780761845331 (eISBN) 076184533X (eISBN)
Notes:	"Portions of this book were read at a kinship symposium in memory of Per Hage at the American Anthropological association meetings in 2006"--P. ix. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-67).

Table of Contents:

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Bibliography

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