Filiation and Affiliation

by Scheffler,Harold W

• ISBN13: 9780813337616
• ISBN10: 0813337615
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-12-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this wide ranging theoretical and ethnographic-comparative study, Scheffler attempts to show that there is much more order than previously suspected in the subject matter usually dealt with under the rubrics of kinship and descent. The focus is on how group constitution conditions other features of social relations within and between groups, especially the potential for group solidarity and for intergroup conflict. The book is a contribution not only to studies of kinship and descent, but also to studies of intergroup or political relations in small-scale societies.

Author Biography

Harold Scheffler is Professor and former Chair of Anthropology at Yale University. He has done ethnographic research among the Plains Ojibwa, in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and in several parts of aboriginal Australia. His previous publications include Choiseul Island Social Structure (1965), A Study in Structural Semantics: The Siriono Kinship System (with F. G. Lounsbury, 1972), and Australian Kin Classification (1978), as well as numerous items in various professional journals. Over the years he has taught or has been a research fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, the University of Brisbane, the University of the Witwatersrand, and a DAAD Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Introduction	ix
Part One: General Considerations
Kinship and Descent	3	(18)
Descent Groups	21	(15)
Jural Structures I	36	(12)
Jural Structures II	48	(21)
Part Two: Specific Instances
Patrifiliation Necessary and Sufficient	69	(37)
Patrifiliation Necessary but Not Sufficient	106	(14)
Patrifiliation Sufficient but Not Necessary I	120	(12)
Patrifiliation Sufficient but Not Necessary II	132	(28)
Joint-Family Systems	160	(9)
Cognatic Descent Groups?	169	(12)
References	181	(17)
Index	198