Kinship Networks And Exchange
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Kinship Networks And Exchange
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Author : Thomas Schweizer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-13
Kinship Networks And Exchange written by Thomas Schweizer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-13 with Business & Economics categories.
This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.
Kinship Networks And International Migration In Nigeria
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Author : A.O. Olutayo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2013-07-16
Kinship Networks And International Migration In Nigeria written by A.O. Olutayo and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with Social Science categories.
This book gives a detailed, comprehensive and insightful account of Nigerians’ international migration trajectories, drivers, processes and dynamics. The book is inspired by the orientation and conviction that, as developing nations, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the world struggle with pathways to development, the time has come to consistently factor in international migration so as to sustainably annex the gains and mitigate loss within the framework of Migration for Development (M4D). However, before migration can drive development, emigration and return forces must be sufficiently understood, especially with regards to the interface of kinship networks which punctuate and strongly influence behavioural characteristics and social relations of Africans. The book was written with strong sociological and anthropological elements and with important academic and pragmatic development orientations. It realistically engages with recent discourses and debates in migration and diaspora studies, kinship, return migration, remittances and migration for development policies and practices. The book is of both theoretical and practical importance, establishing a useful interface among theoretical, empirical and pragmatic issues with relevance not only for the largely ‘sending’ developing nations, but also for the ‘receiving’ developed nations of Europe, America and a few emerging economies of Asia. This book will be very useful as teaching, research and policy material.
Island Networks
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Author : Per Hage
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-28
Island Networks written by Per Hage and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-28 with Social Science categories.
Using network models from graph theory, this book analyses the formation of Pacific island empires.
Network Analysis And Ethnographic Problems
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Author : Douglas White
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005
Network Analysis And Ethnographic Problems written by Douglas White and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.
Using network visualization and the study of the dynamics of marriage choices, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems expands the theory of social practice to show how changes in the structure of a society's kinship network affect the development of social cohesion over time. Using the genealogical networks of a Turkish nomad clan, authors Douglas White and Ulla Johansen explore how changes in network cohesion are revealed to be indicative of key processes of social change. This approach alters in fundamental ways the anthropological concepts of social structure, organizational dynamics, social cohesion, marriage strategies, as well as the study of community politics within the dynamics of ongoing personal interaction.
No More Kin
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Author : Anne R. Roschelle
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1997-04-17
No More Kin written by Anne R. Roschelle and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-17 with Family & Relationships categories.
Black and Latino families are in fact highly family-oriented and want to be involved in exchange networks but, because they are economically disenfranchised, they are prevented from participation. The vitriolic debate on welfare reform currently sweeping the nation assumes that if institutional mechanisms of social support are eliminated, impoverished families will simply rely on an extensive web of kinship networks for their survival. The political discourse surrounding poverty and welfare reform has an increasingly racial undertone. Implementation of social policy that presupposes the availability of family safety nets in minority communities could have disastrous consequences for many without extended kin networks. Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto-Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression affects minority family organization. Breaking new ground in a variety of fields, No More Kin is sure to become a valuable resource for students and professionals in family studies, gender studies, and race/ethnic studies.
Modernization And Kin Network
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Author : Danesh A. Chekki
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1974
Modernization And Kin Network written by Danesh A. Chekki and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Social Science categories.
Kinship And Human Evolution
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Author : Steen Bergendorff
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-03-07
Kinship And Human Evolution written by Steen Bergendorff and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-07 with Science categories.
Kinship and Human Evolution: Making Culture, Becoming Human offers an exciting new explanation of human evolution. Based on insights from anthropology, it shows how humans became “cultured” beings capable of symbolic thought by developing kinship-based exchange relationships. Kinship was as an adaptive response to the harsh environment caused by the last major ice age. In the extreme ice age conditions, natural selection favored those groups that could forge and sustain such alliances, and the resulting relationships enabled them to share different food resources between groups. Kinship was a means of symbolically linking two or more groups, to the mutual reproductive advantage of both. From an evolutionary point of view, kinship freed humans from their dependence on their immediate environment, vastly expanding the niches they could occupy. If we take kinship to be the major factor in human evolution, networks and alliances must precede cultural units, becoming the defining element of localized cultures. Kinship and Human Evolution argues that it is living in networks that produces cultural differences and not culturally different groups that encounter one another; it shows that kinship both saved and created humanity as we know it, in all its cultural diversity.
Dividends Of Kinship
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Author : Peter P. Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2000
Dividends Of Kinship written by Peter P. Schweitzer and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
Aiming to reassert the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship within the framework of social anthropology, this text looks at its benefits and burdens across cultures.
Risky Transactions
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Author : Frank K. Salter
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2002-07-01
Risky Transactions written by Frank K. Salter and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these types of trust is examined by a leading scholar and compared with the expectations of neo-Darwinian theory, in particular the theories of kin selection and ethnic nepotism. The result is a fascinating, theoretically focused yet empirically eclectic contribution to the overlapping fields of human ethnology, evolutionary psychology, and bio-politics. The common thread uniting these diverse phenomena is a trusting relationship predicated on altruism. Chapters examine the strengths and limits of human trust under various stressers and temptations to defect. By exploring the relationship between kin and ethnic altruism and showing its sensitivity to culture, Risky Transactions recasts the evolutionary approach to ethnicity as a blend of primordial and instrumental factors.
Encyclopedia Of Social Networks
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Author : George A. Barnett
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2011-09-07
Encyclopedia Of Social Networks written by George A. Barnett and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-07 with Social Science categories.
Request a FREE 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial This two-volume encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the wide-ranging, fast-developing field of social networking, a much-needed resource at a time when new social networks or "communities" seem to spring up on the internet every day. Social networks, or groupings of individuals tied by one or more specific types of interests or interdependencies ranging from likes and dislikes, or disease transmission to the "old boy" network or overlapping circles of friends, have been in existence for longer than services such as Facebook or YouTube; analysis of these networks emphasizes the relationships within the network . This reference resource offers comprehensive coverage of the theory and research within the social sciences that has sprung from the analysis of such groupings, with accompanying definitions, measures, and research. Featuring approximately 350 signed entries, along with approximately 40 media clips, organized alphabetically and offering cross-references and suggestions for further readings, this encyclopedia opens with a thematic Reader's Guide in the front that groups related entries by topics. A Chronology offers the reader historical perspective on the study of social networks. This two-volume reference work is a must-have resource for libraries serving researchers interested in the various fields related to social networks.