Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Publi... Cantorini, Louis J. and Spiegel, Steven L. The International Politics of Regions: A Comparative... View or download all content the institution has subscribed to. He is too far removed from its formative process. How does kinship constitute—and get constituted by—the relations of power that draw lines of hierarchy and equality, exclusion and inclusion, ambivalence and violence? David Murray Schneider (November 11, 1918, Brooklyn, New York – October 30, 1995, Santa Cruz, California) was an American cultural anthropologist, best known for his studies of kinship and as a major proponent of the symbolic anthropology approach to cultural anthropology. Inspiring many with his keenly critical mind and willingness to flout convention, discomfiting others with his mercurial temperament, David Schneider left an ineradicable mark on his field. The email address and/or password entered does not match our records, please check and try again. -- Research in place : shifting fields of enquiry -- Heterosexual couples : life plans, irreversible infertility and the choice of a programme and gamete donation -- Heterosexual couples : gamete donation, donors and biogenetic make-up -- Heterosexual couples and clinicians : strategies in private clinics of assisted conception - Lesbian and gay couples making families by donation -- The traffic in kinship : southern Europe and Euro-America. Hello! These frank observations on the man and his ideas offer a revealing glimpse of one of modern anthropology's most complex and paradoxical figures. Modern Societies Series. Many reflect Eggan's method of controlled comparison, a tool for reconstructing social and cultural change over time." Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1968. x + ... American kinship terms.) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Sharing links are not available for this article. Ideas about kinship are vital not only to understanding but also to forming many of the practices and innovations of contemporary society. American Kinship: A Cultural Account | David M. Schneider | download | B–OK. In what ways do kinship analogies inform scientific and clinical practices; and what happens to kinship when it is created in such unfamiliar sites as biogenetic labs, new reproductive technology clinics, and the computers of artificial life scientists? The selection is a valuable reference for anthropologists, sociologists, and readers interested in the dynamics of kinship. American Academy of Political & Social Science, DAVID M. SCHNEIDER. --BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He received his B.S. One of the most significant features of American Kinship, then, is the explicit development of a theory of culture on which the analysis is based, a theory that has since proved valuable in the analysis of other cultures. American Kinship: A Cultural Account. How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Preschoolers, Racing Post / RFO Football Annual 2015-2016, Princeton College During the Eighteenth Century, A Birders Guide to Washington, Second Edition, If Only You People Could Follow Directions, Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300, Essential Tools for Organisational Performance, The Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany, How Chinas Communist Party Made the World Sick, I May Be Retired But Ill Always Be A Counselor, Potters and Potteries of New York State, 1650-1900, Theory of Modern Electronic Semiconductor Devices, Her Ladyships Guide to Greeting the Queen, Jaguar S Type, 420 1963-68 Owners Workshop Manual, Social Science Research Council (U. S.) American Indian Studies advisor. Create a link to share a read only version of this article with your colleagues and friends. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. from Cornell University in 1941. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped rock and soil." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Visualizar todos » Termos e frases comuns. In addition to historicized readings, the monograph also highlights how formal narrative characteristics served to heighten their anti-familial message: according to Jackson, the false starts, interpolated plots, and narrative dead-ends prominent in novels like The House of the Seven Gables and Dred are formal iterations of the books' interest in disrupting the family as a privileged ideological site.