Partible paternity and anthropological theory
Subtitle: the construction of an ethnographic fantasy
By: Warren Shapiro
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
ISBN-13: 9780761845324; 9780761845331
Notes: "Portions of this book were read at a kinship symposium in memory of Per Hage at the American Anthropological association meetings in 2006"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-67).
Table of contents: title: Three primitivist projects --; title: The grand claims of Beckerman and Valentine --; title: The northwest Amazon cases --; title: Other pertinent cases : general considerations --; title: Evidence re focality in kin classification simpliciter --; title: Evidence re focality in kin classification stemming from partible paternity --; title: Evidence re the residential and symbolic isolation of the sexually bonded pair and dependent offspring --; title: Evidence re sexual jealousy --; title: Evidence re the denigration of women --; title: Miscellaneous evidence --; title: Conclusion.