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Kinship and Culture (Hardcover)
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At one time Francis L.K. Hsu put forth a hypothesis on kinship that
proposed a functional relationship between particular kinship
systems and behavior patterns in particular cultural contexts. The
controversy provoked among cultural anthropologists by this
hypothesis is reflected in this book, which points the way toward
more fruitful investigations of kinship in cultural and
psychological anthropology. Hsu's hypothesis offers an alternative
to the study of kinship as a mathematical game and to the treatment
of fragmentary aspects of child-rearing practices as major causal
factors in culture. Considering the kinship system as the
psychological factory of culture, Hsu's aim is to discover the
crucial forces in each system that shape the interpersonal
orientation of the individual, which forms the individual's basis
for adequate functioning as a member of his society and which, in
turn, provides his culture with a basis for continuity and change.
His central hypothesis is that the attributes of the dominant dyads
in a given kinship system (such as father-son or mother-daughter)
tend to determine the attitudes and action patterns that the
individual in such a system develops toward other relationships in
that system as well as toward his relationships outside of it. The
topics are varied, ranging from the link between dyadic dominance
and household maintenance, to role dilemmas and father-son
dominance, to sex-role identity and dominant kinship relationships.
The editor has contributed an introduction, an original essay on
kinship and patterns of social cohesion, and a summary chapter to
bring coherence to the diversity of opinion stated. This new
presentation of Hsu's hypothesis, together with its discussion by
eminent anthropologists and its recommendations for future research
in the area, is an important addition to the literature on kinship.
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