Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpretation leads the author to resolve the main discrepancies in Sioux kinship terminology and, more profoundly, in the sociology of this group. He elucidates the « Ghost Lodge Ceremony », a funerary rite devoted to very young children, in order to understand how the phenomena of adoption and of death among the Sioux substitute the classical categories of filiation and alliance as the basic structuring principles. Sioux sociability is literally saturated by way of ritual adoption, the hunka ceremony. With the ideal wife being a war captive, alliance is relegated to the periphery, whrereas the couple of kola, « war companion », occupies a more pr...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
My claim in this paper is that the notion of linguistic category currently used in anthropology is o...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpr...
The assumption that a positive congruence exists between social structure and kinship terminology is...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1185International audienceThis book is a study of the socia...
http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1185International audienceThis book is a study of the socia...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
My claim in this paper is that the notion of linguistic category currently used in anthropology is o...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpr...
The assumption that a positive congruence exists between social structure and kinship terminology is...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1185International audienceThis book is a study of the socia...
http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1185International audienceThis book is a study of the socia...
Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of corifl...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...
My claim in this paper is that the notion of linguistic category currently used in anthropology is o...
This work is a comparative analysis of the institutionalized practice of joking relationships amongs...