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Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory
The Construction of an Ethnographic Fantasy
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2009
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Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception 'partible paternity' within Amazonian Indian communities. 'Partible paternity' is the idea that several sexual acts are necessary to produce a fetus and that the mother may have these with several men, who in turn have several sexual partners as well. Victorian anthropologists viewed this situation as 'group marriage,' a hypothetical state in which individual marriage and the family did not exist and which, presumably, once characterized Western society. The notion of 'group marriage' was demolished by 1920, when it was shown that individual marriage and the family exist nearly everywhere. More recently, however, the idea has been resurrected by Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine in their book Cultures of Multiple Fathers. This book argues that Beckerman and Valentine are completely wrong—in Amazonia, the family exists everywhere, and the occasional trysts which result in shared paternity are subject to male sexual jealousy.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4532-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4533-1
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
68
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Chapter 01. Three Primitivist Projects No access Pages 3 - 10
Chapter 02. The Grand Claims of Beckerman and Valentine No access Pages 11 - 22
Chapter 03. The Northwest Amazon Cases No access Pages 23 - 30
Chapter 04. Other Pertinent Cases: General Considerations No access Pages 31 - 32
Chapter 05. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Simpliciter No access Pages 33 - 36
Chapter 06. Evidence Re Focality in Kin Classification Stemming from Partible Paternity No access Pages 37 - 40
Chapter 07. Evidence Re the Residential and Symbolic Isolation of the Sexually Bonded Pair and Dependent Offsprin No access Pages 41 - 44
Chapter 08. Evidence Re Sexual Jealousy No access Pages 45 - 46
Chapter 09. Evidence Re the Denigration of Women No access Pages 47 - 50
Chapter 10. Miscellaneous Evidence No access Pages 51 - 54
Chapter 11. Conclusion No access Pages 55 - 56
Bibliography No access Pages 57 - 68
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