Navajo Kinship and Marriage

Name: Navajo Kinship and Marriage
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ISBN: 9780226904184

ISBN-10: 0226904180

ISBN-13: 9780226904184

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Gary Witherspoon

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The Navajo are one of the most studied people in the world; yet their social organization is one of the least well understood. In Navajo Kinship and Marriage, Gary Witherspoon, a fluent speaker of the Navajo language who lived among the Navajo for eight years, offers a new theoretical approach to kinship based on its cultural dimensions. Witherspoon makes a primary distinction between culture (patterns for behavior) and the system of social relations (observable patterns of behavior) in this definitive work on Navajo kinship and marriage. "Witherspoon . . . clarifies problems pertaining to Navajo kinship and marriage through his skillful use of the concepts of cultural and social …

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 145
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.88" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Kinship as a Cultural System



Mother and Child and the Nature of Kinship



Marriage and the Nature of Affinity



Father and Child



The Descent System



The Concepts of Sex, Generation, Sibling Order, and Distance



Kinship and Affinal Solidarity as Symbolized in the Enemyway



Social Organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain Area



Residence in the Subsistence Residential Unit



Subsistence in the Subsistence Residential Unit



Unity in the Subsistence Residential Unit



The Navajo Outfit as a Set of Related Subsistence Residential Units



The Web of Affinity



The Social Universe of the Navajo


Notes


Bibliography


Index