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Kinship in the Admiralty Islands (Hardcover)
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The Manus of New Guinea's Pere village were Margaret Mead's most
favored community, the people to whom she returned five times
before she died in 1978. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands is the
classic and only thorough description of their complex rules of
marriage and family relations. It draws on Mead's 1928-1929 field
work, conducted with her second husband, New Zealander Reo Fortune,
and benefits by her being able to cross-check her data with his.
Written in 1931, Kinship followed Mead's first and very popular
book on the Manus, Growing Up in New Guinea, which was criticized
by other anthropologists for being too general in scope. In Kinship
Mead succeeded in demonstrating her thorough knowledge of this
Melanesian group in the specific terms prized by her scholarly
colleagues, while also describing in depth Manus social
structure.Kinship in the Admiralty Islands describes an intricate
system of social restraints and kinship ties and their impact on
the local economy. The Manus' predilection for adoption, for
example, allows surrogate fathers to make extended marriage
payments, while in the next generation their adopted sons will take
on the same responsibility for other young men in the new kin
network. Mead reviews other kinship rules, such as avoidance
behavior between in-laws of the opposite sex, early betrothals,
other forms of adoption, and a range of deference behavior and
joking relations among kin. In this work, Mead walks a fine line
between functionalist kinship analysis of the British school of
Radclife Brown and the cultural-and-personality orientation of
Americans in the school of Franz Boas.Jeanne Guillemin's new
introduction provides a lively in depth description of Margaret
Mead's career in the early days of anthropology, the sometimes
negative reactions of her contemporaries to her work, and her
reasons for writing Kinship in the Admiralty Islands, as well as
Mead's later reactions to how "her Manus" entered the modern
world.Margaret Mead was noted for directing her writings to both
scholar and laymen alike. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands will be
of interest to anthropologists and general readers interested in
the peoples of the South Pacific.Margaret Mead was curator of
ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History. She was the
author of many books including Continuities in Cultural Evolution
(available from Transaction), The Study of Culture at a Distance,
The Mountain of Arapesh, and From the South Seas: Studies of
Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies. Jeanne Guillemin is a
professor of anthropology at Boston College and editor of
Anthropological Realities: Readings in the Science of Culture, also
available from Transaction.
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