Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis

In: Amerind Studies in Archaeology

In: Amerind Studies in Archaeology Ser

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Kinship Notation -- Linguistic Note -- 1. A Classic Problem - Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley -- Crow-Omaha in Theory -- 2. Crossness and Crow-Omaha - Thomas R. Trautmann -- 3. Tetradic Theory and Omaha Systems - Nicholas J. Allen -- North America -- 4. Omaha and "Omaha" - R. H. Barnes -- 5. Crow-Omaha Kinship in North America: A Puebloan Perspective - Peter M. Whiteley -- 6. Phylogenetic Analysis of Sociocultural Data: Identifying Transformation Vectors for Kinship Systems - Ward C. Wheeler, Peter M. Whiteley, and Theodore Powers -- Africa -- 7. A Tetradic Starting Point for Skewing? Marriage as a Generational Contract: Reflections on Sister-Exchange in Africa - Wendy James -- 8. Crow-(and Omaha-) TypeKinship Terminology: The Fanti Case - David B. Kronenfeld -- 9. Deep-Time Historical Contexts of Crow and Omaha Systems Perspectives from Africa - Christopher Ehret -- South America -- 10. The Making and Unmaking of "Crow-Omaha" Kinship in Central Brazil(ian Ethnology) - Marcela Coelho de Souza -- 11. Schemas of Kinship Relations and the Construction of Social Categories among the Mebêngôkrê Kayapó - Terence Turner -- Australia -- 12. Omaha Skewing in Australia Overlays, Dynamism, and Change - Patrick McConvell -- 13. "Horizontal" and "Vertical" Skewing Similar Objectives, Two Solutions? - Laurent Dousset -- Afterword -- 14. Crow-Omaha, in Thickness and in Thin - Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Topics Index -- Peoples Index -- Persons Index.