The Anthropology of Sibling Relations [electronic resource] : Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange /
Alber, E.editor.
Coe, C.editor.
Thelen, T.editor.
Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Siblingship as shared parentage and experience -- pt. 2. Siblingship as life-long exchange.
Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival.
Ethnography.
Anthropology.
Social groups.
Family.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Ethnography.
Anthropology.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology, general.