Lineage Theory: A Critical Retrospect

Kuper, Adam

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“…Como sucede en otras sociedades segmentarias (Kuper 1982), la identidad de los ayllus se fundaba en dos lógicas indisolublemente unidas: una territorial, otra de parentesco. De acuerdo a la primera de ellas, los miembros del ayllu eran personas que administraban corporativamente la tierra y otros recursos estratégicos asociados a ella, como el agua o las pasturas (Rasnake 1989: 54;Izko 1992: 47-48).…”

Section: Integración Segmentaria Y Apropiación Corporativa En Los Andesunclassified

Plazas para los antepasados: Descentralización y poder corporativo en las formaciones políticas preincaicas de los Andes circumpuneños

Axel

2006

Estud. atacam.

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Plazas para los antepasados: Descentralización y poder corporativo en las formaciones políticas preincaicas de los Andes circumpuneños

Axel

2006

Estud. atacam.

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“…This is in one way inevitable, because while one must live somewhere, one can live without artificial exogamic groupings, descent reckoning, or totems; co-residence necessarily brings associations which have social influence; just as one must have kin, but need not have clans. " (Kroeber 1938,307-308) As Kuper (1982) notes, this position preceded the later critiques of descent theory (see chapter 8) and indeed, critiques of anthropology's study of kinship in general. Murdock, on the other hand, emphasised the underlying influence of residence patterns, but also maintained the place of rules of descent in organizing social structure.…”

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Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship: Compatibility between Cultural and Biological Approaches

Holland

2004

SSRN Journal

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Abstract''`ýýThe current thesis aims to clarify some aspects of the relationship between biology and social bonds. The central task is to demonstrate that, despite clear problems of some past approaches claiming to represent biology, there is non-reductive compatibility between the perspective from cultural approaches documenting processes of social bonding in humans and the perspective from basic biological theory. In demonstrating this compatibility, the thesis also attempts to contribute to delineating the utility and limits of applying insights from biology to understanding aspects of human social behaviour, and to sociological study in general. The areas of social bonding and social relationships under focus are mainly at the level of individuals and primary social groups, rather than a structural-functional approach often employed in classical sociology of the family and comparative sociology.The thesis initially reviews recent cultural approaches to understanding social bonding, and notes the potential academic value of a clarification of the association between social kinship and physical ('related by blood') kinship. In reviewing biological theory on social bonding and social behaviour, it is argued that classic sociobiological interpretations of this biological theory are erroneous in some crucial respects, and a different interpretation is argued for. Evidence on processes mediating social bonding in social mammals and particularly in primates is reviewed. It is demonstrated that circumstantial, social and contextual 'cues' typically mediate the formation of primary social bonds in these species, not genealogical relationship per se, and that these findings are compatible with basic biological theory. In the human case, it is demonstrated that the current interpretation of biological theory is also compatible with established disciplines closely associated with detailing mechanisms of social bonding (such as attachment theory). The consensus here is again that social bonds are mediated by various social and contextual cues rather than genealogical relationship per se. Various useful feedback has been provided by reviewers of earlier drafts of the thesis.My thanks especially to

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“…Consonant with his sociological orientation, Needham's interpretation of 'descent' disregards the rst dimension and takes group membership as one additional status to be allocated, focusing hence on the third dimension. For discussions of the notion of descent in anthropology, see Dumont 1971;Fortes 1959;Kuper 1982;Rivers 1924;Schef er 1966Schef er , 1985Schef er , 2001b According to Needham, anthropologists had frequently committed a double mistake in elaborating typologies based on principles of descent. As a formal illustration (Needham 1971), take three different societies (A, B, C), each having three types of rights or duties [from the set (p; : : : ; v)] as important constituents of their social structure, and suppose r and t were transmitted matrilineally:…”

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The Fall of Kinship: Towards an Epidemiological Explanation

Sousa¹

2003

J Cogn Cult

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Kinship used to be described as what anthropologists do. Today, many might well say that it is what anthropologists do not do. One possible explanation is that the notion of kinship fell off anthropology's radar due to the criticisms raised by Needham and Schneider among others, which supposedly demonstrated that kinship is not a sound theoretical concept. Drawing inspiration from epidemiological approaches to cultural phenomena, this article aims to enrich this explanation. Kinship became an unattractive theoretical concept in the subculture of anthropology not simply because of problems with kinship theory per se, but also on account of fundamental changes in the very conception of anthropological knowledge and the impact of these changes on the personal identity of anthropologists. KEYWORDSEpidemiology of representations, history of ideas, anthropology, kinship studies.

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Lineage Theory: A Critical Retrospect

Cited by 164 publications

References 36 publications

Plazas para los antepasados: Descentralización y poder corporativo en las formaciones políticas preincaicas de los Andes circumpuneños

Plazas para los antepasados: Descentralización y poder corporativo en las formaciones políticas preincaicas de los Andes circumpuneños

Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship: Compatibility between Cultural and Biological Approaches

The Fall of Kinship: Towards an Epidemiological Explanation

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