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1 online resource (ix, 67 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-67). |
| Contents |
List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Three Primitivist Projects; Chapter 02. The Grand Claims of Beckerman and Valentine; Chapter 03. The Northwest Amazon Cases; Chapter 04. Other Pertinent Cases: General Considerations; Chapter 05. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Simpliciter; Chapter 06. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Stemming from Partible Paternity; Chapter 07. Evidence Re the Residential and Symbolic Isolation of the Sexually Bonded Pair and Dependent Offsprin; Chapter 08. Evidence Re Sexual Jealousy. |
| Summary |
Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception "partible paternity" within Amazonian Indian communities. "Partible paternity" is the idea that several sexual acts are necessary to produce a fetus and that the mother may havethese with several men, who in turn have several sexual partners as well. Victorian anthropologists viewed this situation as "group marriage," a hypothetical state in which individual marriage and the family did not exist and which, presumably, once characterized Western society. The notion of "group marriage" was demolished by 1920, when it was show. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Kinship.
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Indians of South America -- Kinship. |
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Indians of South America -- Sexual behavior.
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Indians of South America -- Sexual behavior. |
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Indians of South America. |
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Paternity.
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Paternity. |
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Conception.
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Conception. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shapiro, Warren. Partible paternity and anthropological theory. Lanham : University Press of America, ©2009 9780761845324 0761845321 (DLC) 2009922981 (OCoLC)316827975 |
| ISBN |
9780761845331 (electronic book) |
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076184533X (electronic book) |
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9780761845324 (print) |
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0761845321 (print) |
| Standard No. |
9786612479731 |
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