The Kinship System of the Tallensi: A Revaluation

Worsley, Peter

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“…Their concerns were systems and structures, integration and stability, and groups and the relationships between groups, conceptualized in terms of paradigms of descent and alliance. Beginning in the 1950s, kinship theory began to be subjected to a series of critiques (Bloch 1973;Goody 1973;Kuper 1982;Leach 1961Leach , 1968Lewis 1965;Needham 1971;Worsley 1956), of which the most devastating and most productive for future research were published by Schneider (1965Schneider ( , 1972Schneider ( , 1980Schneider ( , 1984.…”

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Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction

Levine

2008

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This review examines the implications of new kinship practices for anthropological theory, with a special focus on recent research in gay and lesbian kinship and assisted reproduction. The article begins with an account of the theoretical contexts in which kinship studies have been conducted and a brief survey of some of the older literature on alternative systems of marriage and family formation in preindustrial and modern societies. The emphasis then turns to current discussions of how gay men and lesbian women are creating meaningful networks of kin and families and the ways in which these practices both follow and challenge traditional expectations for family life. The final section surveys the ways in which the new reproductive technologies have been utilized in Euro-American societies and how cultural ideas and values concerning kin relationships have shaped the transfer of these technologies to and their utilization in other societies.

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Section: Introduction: Theoretical Contextsmentioning

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Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction

Levine

2008

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…term Big Man is given in the ethnographic 2 Fallers 1956: 197 distinguishes between tradi-literature is commonly to be found in acephelous tional and civil-service chiefs. The Teso chiefly societies and peasant societies which are not feudal, entrepreneurs of this essay resemble his 'client-See Worsley 1956;Barnes 1962;Strathern 1966. A chiefs'. developmental relationship exists between the Big 3 See, for example, Arrighi and Saul 1973; Men of acephelous societies and the patrons and Balandier 1951; Biebuyck and Douglas 1961; political brokers of the contemporary local scene.…”

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Colonial Chiefs and the Making of Class: A Case Study From Teso, Eastern Uganda

Vincent¹

1977

Africa

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Opening ParagraphThis is a study of Teso District, eastern Uganda, during a period of colonial administration from 1896 to 1927. A group of appointed chiefs was brought into being and maintained within a local political environment in which neither traditional rulers nor a principle of hereditary succession to political office were recognised. The growth of the bureaucratic and authoritarian aspects of client chiefship is traced, along with changes in the relations of the chiefs with the colonial regime and with the people they ruled. In time, their increasing powers of coercion and their accumulative control of patronage led to the emergence of a class interest among them. This became crystallised in the mid-1920s when, as a body, they maintained a conservative stance within a colonial administration geared to change.

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“…Murphy (1979) has postulated that unilineal descent in Lowland South America functions as a rule of exclusion, limiting the numbers of potential claimants to resources exploited by a group. Vol.47, No.4,1982 For the Tallensi, Worsley (1956) correlates degree of corporateness of kin groups with increased pressure on agricultural land; Meggitt (1965) notes increased emphasis on the agnatic principle among the Mae Enga in areas of land scarcity. It follows that bilaterality-a rule that maximizes recruitment options-can be suggested as a response to conditions in which labor rather than land constitutes a limiting factor in the productivity and security of a local population (cf.…”

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Cultural Materialism: A Theoretical Review

Price¹

1982

Am. antiq.

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A review of the principles of cultural materialism (a synthesis of Marx's causal primacy of the infrastructure and Darwinian mechanisms of natural selection), this paper addresses certain substantive and metatheoretical problems of contemporary anthropology. A position paper, it is written from the standpoint that cultural materialism offers the most powerful and productive set of premises extant in the discipline for the explanation of cultural similarity and difference, stability and change, and for the nonidiosyncratic formulation—and potential falsification—of the broadest possible comparative and diachronic propositions. The implications of this position for disciplinary and subfield relationships in the social sciences are explored.

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The Kinship System of the Tallensi: A Revaluation

Cited by 27 publications

References 18 publications

Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction

Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction

Colonial Chiefs and the Making of Class: A Case Study From Teso, Eastern Uganda

Cultural Materialism: A Theoretical Review

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