Kinship as a social anthropological category, with its three fundamentals – affinity, descent, and siblingship – denotes an orderly system of social relationships past, present, and future, through which a social system is composed and reproduced. What rules, if any, regulate marriage alliance among the Amish? Why are both affinal and consanguineal relationships structurally subordinated to that of fictive kinship? Building on and reexamining the extant anthropological discourse concerning the Amish kinship organization, a comparative-diachronic analysis of courtship, marriage, descent, inheritance, and residential patterns in a holistic and alliance-focused social system is provided. The article contributes an analysis of social-cosmologic...
In this article, I reconsider bio-essentialism in the study of kinship, centering on David Schneider...
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliation...
Kinship is a term used broadly in the social sciences, particularly in anthropology, to mean the web...
In this article, I explore the connections between Amish gender socialization and Amish birth practi...
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliation...
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resour...
In this article, I explore the connections between Amish gender socialization and Amish birth practi...
Everywhere humans structure their social field, amongst others, by way of what is called a kinship s...
Everywhere humans structure their social field, amongst others, by way of what is called a kinship s...
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resour...
Bioarchaeology provides sophisticated techniques for estimating intra- and intercemetery biological ...
When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But ...
This papers examines the recent controversy as to whether there is any universally defined domain of...
This papers examines the recent controversy as to whether there is any universally defined domain of...
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliation...
In this article, I reconsider bio-essentialism in the study of kinship, centering on David Schneider...
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliation...
Kinship is a term used broadly in the social sciences, particularly in anthropology, to mean the web...
In this article, I explore the connections between Amish gender socialization and Amish birth practi...
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliation...
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resour...
In this article, I explore the connections between Amish gender socialization and Amish birth practi...
Everywhere humans structure their social field, amongst others, by way of what is called a kinship s...
Everywhere humans structure their social field, amongst others, by way of what is called a kinship s...
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resour...
Bioarchaeology provides sophisticated techniques for estimating intra- and intercemetery biological ...
When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But ...
This papers examines the recent controversy as to whether there is any universally defined domain of...
This papers examines the recent controversy as to whether there is any universally defined domain of...
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliation...
In this article, I reconsider bio-essentialism in the study of kinship, centering on David Schneider...
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliation...
Kinship is a term used broadly in the social sciences, particularly in anthropology, to mean the web...