Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis

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Contents Preface vii Kinship Notation xi Linguistic Note xiii 1 A Classic Problem 1 Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley Crow-Omaha in Theory 2 Crossness and Crow-Omaha 31 Thomas R. Trautmann 3 Tetradic Theory and Omaha Systems 51 Nicholas J. Allen North America 4 Omaha and “Omaha” 69 R. H. Barnes 5 Crow-Omaha Kinship in North America: A Puebloan Perspective 83 Peter M. Whiteley 6 Phylogenetic Analysis of Sociocultural Data: Identifying Transformation Vectors for Kinship Systems 109 Ward C. Wheeler, Peter M. Whiteley, and Theodore Powers Africa 7 A Tetradic Starting Point for Skewing? Marriage as a Generational Contract: Reflections on Sister-Exchange in Africa 135 Wendy James 8 Crow- (and Omaha-) Type Kinship Terminology: The Fanti Case 153 David B. Kronenfeld 9 Deep-Time Historical Contexts of Crow and Omaha Systems: Perspectives from Africa 173 Christopher Ehret South America 10 The Making and Unmaking of “Crow-Omaha” Kinship in Central Brazil(ian Ethnology) 205 Marcela Coelho de Souza 11 Schemas of Kinship Relations and the Construction of Social Categories among the Mebêngôkrê Kayapó 223 Terence Turner Australia 12 Omaha Skewing in Australia: Overlays, Dynamism, and Change 243 Patrick McConvell 13 “Horizontal” and “Vertical” Skewing: Similar Objectives, Two Solutions? 261 Laurent Dousset Afterword 14 Crow-Omaha, in Thickness and in Thin 281 Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley Notes 299 Glossary 303 References 309 About the Contributors 335 Topics Index 337 Peoples Index 344 Persons Index 347 vi Contents ...