Warren Shapiro

Datos Biográficos

ID3597172
NOMBREWarren Shapiro
NOMBRESWarren
APELLIDOShapiro
FIRMASHAPIRO W
AFILIACIONESRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
ORCID0009-0000-0277-7639
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS68
TOTAL DE CITAS247
TOTAL COMO AUTOR68
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1966
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H8

  • Misconceptions about Conception Theories. A Critique of Carol Delaney

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEAnthropos2024

    Carol Delaney has repeatedly argued that a "monogenic" theory of procreation, whereby women are held to be mere receptacles of semen in coitus, the fetus being attributed solely to the male contribution, is the sole theory of reproduction in the Turkish village in which she worked. It is argued here that (1) she takes no account of the considerable literature on local variation in such theories; (2) that, despite the Koranic basis of the monogeni…

  • The ‘Social Construction’ of David Schneider as ‘A Giant of Anthropology’

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEOceania2020

    David Schneider is widely regarded as one of the great anthropologists of our times. This article questions this opinion. First it shows that his fieldwork on the Micronesian island of Yap evidences ethnographic insensitivity, particularly on the matter of an alleged ignorance of physiological paternity, thus calling into question his supposed concern with getting at native understandings. The alleged ignorance forms the ethnographic basis for hi…

  • Nuer Sociality and Current Kinship Controversy

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEAnthropos2019

    In his critique of sociobiology, Marshall Sahlins relies heavily on Evans-Pritchard's best-known publications on the Nuer. He maintains that Nuer sociality is most accurately analyzed as "culture," not "biology." This dichotomy is the basis of his more recent statement on human kinship. By contrast, it is shown here, based on a more comprehensive attention to the pertinent literature, that Nuer sociality is largely consistent with Darwinian and W…

  • Rethinking Navajo Social Theory

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEStructure and Dynamics eJournal…2019Referencias: 21

    Hal Scheffler, in arguing that native concepts about procreation provide the basis for kin reckoning universally, presented considerable evidence for his argument, in addition to the extension rules for which he is best known, This essay applies this evidence to the Navajo materials and shows that a Schefflerian analysis is correct. By contrast, the analysis of Nava-jo kinship by Gary Witherspoon, indebted to David Schneider’s ideas, is shown to …

  • Focality and Extension in Kinship

    Warren Shapiro, Warrren ShapiroBOOKFocality and Extension in Kinship2018Citada por: 7Referencias: 208

    When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways—nowadays called ‘performative’—of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents, godparents; members of a trade union may refer to each other as ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. Similar performative ties are even more common among the so-called ‘tribal’ peoples that anthropologists have stud…

  • Fifteen Complaints against the New Kinship Studies

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEAnthropos2018Citada por: 1

    Anthropos , Seite 21 - 38

  • Toward a Post-Schneiderian Perspective on Kinship

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2017Citada por: 5Referencias: 67

    The so-called new kinship studies, inspired by David Schneider, are shown to be mistaken in arguing that non-Western kinship notions are not grounded in native appreciations of procreation. The argument is sustainable mostly by an almost complete neglect of the pertinent kinship terminologies. Attention to such terminologies, by contrast, shows that close procreative kin, even when superficially classed with others, including non-kin, are in fact…

  • Why Schneiderian Kinship Studies Have It All Wrong

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEStructure and Dynamics eJournal…2016Citada por: 7Referencias: 29

    Followers of David Schneider regularly claim that kinship in one or another community is not based upon native procreative notions. This claim has been shown to be wrong in several cases. But early childhood adoption might be thought to pose a special challenge to these correctives, because, unlike kinship notions established later in life, it draws upon the decided tendency of the very young to attach themselves to adult caretakers regardless of…

  • Totemism

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Not "From the Natives' Point of View." - Why the New Kinship Studies Need the Old Kinship Terminologies

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEAnthropos2015Citada por: 4

    Anthropos , Seite 1 - 14

  • Contesting Marshall Sahlins on Kinship

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEOceania2014

    In a recent two-part article on the nature of kinship, Marshall Sahlins maintains that performative criteria for kin-reckoning are at least as salient as procreative ones, and that, at conception, an individual is endowed with a wide circle of kin, including the ancestral dead. For both reasons, he argues, there is no warrant for granting privileged status to what anthropologists have called ‘primary’ kinship. The contentions here are that perfor…

  • On the Alleged Disjunction between Cultural and Darwinian Understandings of Human Kinship

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEJournal of Cognition and Culture2014Referencias: 23

    Various anthropologists have alleged that cultural constructions of kinship are at odds with Darwinian understandings of the same phenomena. The argument here is that this is not at all the case if attention is paid to the semantic structure of kinship categories, which reveals that the central members of these categories are indeed close procreative kin. Attention is also drawn to supporting research in cognitive psychology

  • Anti-Family Fantasies in "Cutting-Edge" Anthropological Kinship Studies

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEAcademic Questions2012Citada por: 3

  • Extensionism

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2012Referencias: 3

  • Extensionism and the nature of kinship

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2012Citada por: 18Referencias: 10

  • The Nuclear Familyversusthe Men's House? A re-examination of Mundurucú Sociality

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEAnthropological Forum2011Citada por: 4Referencias: 60

    It has been posited that in communities with residential men's houses there is perforce no nuclear family. This position is examined with reference to the published data on the Mundurucú of Central Brazil. Comparative data are also examined from Oceania and elsewhere. The conclusion is that the two institutions do indeed co-exist in the Mundurucú case. I should like to thank Tom Gregor and Tom Parides for encouragement, and for comments on an ear…

  • Structuralism versus Sociology

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEMankind2010

  • Fanti Kinship and the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies . David B. Kronenfeld

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2010

  • Some Implications of Clark Wissler's Race Theory

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEMankind2010Citada por: 2Referencias: 29

    A recent attempt to place the name of Clark Wissler in a central position in the history of anthropology ignores his blatant racism. Wissler's racism was evident not only in scholarly and popular circles, but, as well, was employed by the United States government to give ‘scientific’ status to its Immigration Act of 1924. The Act favoured the inflow of Northwest Europeans at the expense of Eastern European Jews and other groups who had been immig…

  • Semi-Moiety Organization

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEMankind2010Referencias: 11

  • Kinship and beyond

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2010Citada por: 1

  • The Old Kinship Studies Confronts Gay Kinship

    Warren ShapiroARTICLEAnthropological Forum2010Citada por: 7Referencias: 47

    Kath Weston's highly-acclaimed analysis of gay kinship is examined in the light of the old kinship studies, especially the notion of focality. The verdict is quite contrary to Weston's, viz. that gay kinship and the idea of gay families are structural derivatives of heterosexual kinship and heterosexual families. Weston's work is shown to be part of a larger collectivist project in kinship theory in which key concerns in semantic theory are ignor…

  • Marxist/Feminist Models in the New Guinea Highlands

    Open AccessWarren ShapiroARTICLEOceania2009

    The widespread existence of men's houses in Highland New Guinea raises the question as to the existence of the nuclear family in this area. We know that in some cases (e.g. the ‘Sambiah’) a married couple co‐reside, despite the fear of the woman's alleged pollution. In others there may be symbolic isolation of the nuclear family, e.g. by subclassification in kin terminology. The matter is especially important in current kinship studies, wherein M…

  • Discussion of ‘A. L. Kroeber and the New Kinship Studies

    Catherine Alès, Linda K Watts et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Forum2009Referencias: 9

    I want first to thank the author of this article for his stimulating critique. It seems that the misunderstanding between him and the authors he critiques comes from the fact that we are not talkin

  • A Maverick Boasian

    Warren Shapiro