Structure and Sentiment (Classic Reprint): A Test Case in Social Anthropology: A Test Case in Social Anthropology (Classic Reprint) - Brossura
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Questioning how psychological ideas explain social kinship, with a cross-cultural test of a major theory.
This work examines the limits of psychological explanations in sociology and anthropology, using real-world cases to evaluate a well-known proposal about marriage rules and kinship. The book frames a practical challenge: can a theory about unilateral cross-cousin marriage withstand careful testing across diverse societies? It discusses several cultural groups and focuses on how methods, evidence, and exceptions shape conclusions. Readers will see how researchers analyze jural authority, lineage, and marriage rules, and how surprising findings can revise long-standing ideas.
- Explains how social explanations are assessed against cross-cultural evidence.
- Uses multiple case studies to illustrate theory, exceptions, and revisions.
- Discusses methodological questions about counting societies and interpreting data.
- Shows how kinship, alliance, and prescriptive marriage shape social structure.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book delves into the historical and anthropological debate on social institutions, specifically the concept of 'prescriptive marriage rules' as the organizing principle of some societies' structures. The author posits that this theory, first put forward in the 1949 classic Les Structures à là mentaires de la Parentà by Claude Levi-Strauss, is fundamentally flawed. He argues that Levi-Strauss' theory misinterprets the empirical data, over-emphasizes statistical correlations, and mistakenly employs psychological analysis to address a sociological problem. By contrast, the author presents a rigorous and evidence-based analysis of prescriptive marriage rules, demonstrating their structural and functional significance in organizing social life. This book provides a valuable critique of a widely accepted theory and offers fresh insights into the role of these rules in shaping human societies. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Codice articolo 9781333795047_0
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