Duran Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duran Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duran |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Marriage Payments: A Fundamental Reconsideration
Marriage payments: a fundamental reconsiderationAbstract This paper is a constructive critique of the well-known book by Jack Goody and Stanley Tambiah (1973), Bridewealth and Dowry. Given the general acceptance of Goody's framework in contemporary studies of marriage and marriage payments, it is essential that we refer to this framework as we advance new theoretical concepts of marriage-related socio-economic processes. As some reviews of this p…
Miaohui, the Temples Meeting Festival in North China
We examine the multiple purposes and modalities that converge during a circuit of festivals, miaohui, which temples organize in recognition of local gods and which are attended reciprocally by temple representatives from the surrounding area in North China. The festivals involve intense expressions of devotion to one or more deities, while offering an opportunity for representatives of other villages to seek recognition through rather boisterous …
Identity and Social Innovation
Foundational to this discussion are two papers on "identity" by George A. Akerlof and Rachel Kranton [2000, 2005]. We contribute to their development of this issue with additional factors that are arguably essential to the analysis of identity formation. While they indicate the importance of norms as the bases of identity, we suggest additionally the relevance of independence, individual creativity and the exploration of behaviors beyond norms. A…
Preface to Structure and Dynamics: 1#3
We institute here a policy of occasionally publishing noteworthy PhD dissertations that advance anthropology or related sciences. Such publications are to be copy edited by the dissertation author, nominated by the author's PhD committee, and must receive unqualified support in our review process of at least two assigned referees, as well as by the editors of Structure and Dynamics
Destroying the Remembered and Recovering the Forgotten in Chai: Between Traditionalism and Modernity in Beijing
Beijing is currently undergoing a host of dramatic changes, as reflected in the popular symbol chai (see pdf for characters). Chai means destruction; but it also refers to antiquated things or ideas that should be destroyed. By presenting chai, one is able to arouse into memory certain forgotten things that previously rested in the background. However, the reconstructed forgotten memories that one actually remembers differ from the actually forgo…
Introduction to Structure and Dynamics: Inaugural Issue
In inaugurating the Structure and Dynamics journal, we offer a conduit for refereed electronic publication, debate, and editorial communication in the domain of anthropology and human sciences. We as editors dedicate our effort to facilitating and disseminating interdisciplinary discussion and research in anthropology and related sciences. We invite you-as a subscribed reader at no cost-to contribute and to participate in raising the aspirations …
"Gay Marriage" in a Society without Marriage: Marriage and Family
Theory in economic anthropology
Chapter 1 Introduction: Theory in Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century Part 2 Part I: The New Institutionalism Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Property Rights and Incentives for Agricultural Growth: Women Farmer's Crop Control and their Use of Agricultural Inputs Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, Problems and Possibilities Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Experimental Economics: A Powerful New Method for Theory Testing in Ant…
Money as Struggle, Nationhood, Domination
Property and Propriety: Reply
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology. Stephen Gudeman. ed. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1998.576 pp
Guanxi: A Nesting of Groups
Wealth Transfers Occasioned by Marriage: A Comparative Reconsideration
INTRODUCTION The theory of marriage payments has been oriented toward explaining why various categories of practice take place under particular ecological and technological conditions (Bossen 1988; Goody 1973; Spiro 1975; Harrel and Dickey 1985; Kressel 1977; Schlegel and Eloul 1988; Tambiah 1989; and others). This effort has been productive of a wide range of important analytical findings. However, the results of this chapter suggest that some o…
Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are relat…
Defining Marriage and Legitimacy
A cross-culturally valid conception of marriage must begin with a definition of husband-wife and with a distinction between spouses and lovers. From this perspective we find that marriage is an institution by which men are provided (socially supported) rights to women. Typically, this institution is embedded within a domestic group wherein a multiplicity of other rights and responsibilities are assigned. Hence, the definition of marriage attribut…
Altruism and Beyond: An Economic Analysis of Transfers and Exchanges within Families and Groups. Oded Stark
On the Nature of Sharing: Beyond the Range of Methodological Individualism
Explaining the Level of Bridewealth
"A Comment on Lambek's "Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte
The Reluctant Ally: France and Atlantic Security
Indebtedness in black and white families
Reader's Commentary
Guanxi: A Nesting of Groups
Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are relat…
Defining Marriage and Legitimacy
A cross-culturally valid conception of marriage must begin with a definition of husband-wife and with a distinction between spouses and lovers. From this perspective we find that marriage is an institution by which men are provided (socially supported) rights to women. Typically, this institution is embedded within a domestic group wherein a multiplicity of other rights and responsibilities are assigned. Hence, the definition of marriage attribut…
On the Nature of Sharing: Beyond the Range of Methodological Individualism
Miaohui, the Temples Meeting Festival in North China
We examine the multiple purposes and modalities that converge during a circuit of festivals, miaohui, which temples organize in recognition of local gods and which are attended reciprocally by temple representatives from the surrounding area in North China. The festivals involve intense expressions of devotion to one or more deities, while offering an opportunity for representatives of other villages to seek recognition through rather boisterous …
Destroying the Remembered and Recovering the Forgotten in Chai: Between Traditionalism and Modernity in Beijing
Beijing is currently undergoing a host of dramatic changes, as reflected in the popular symbol chai (see pdf for characters). Chai means destruction; but it also refers to antiquated things or ideas that should be destroyed. By presenting chai, one is able to arouse into memory certain forgotten things that previously rested in the background. However, the reconstructed forgotten memories that one actually remembers differ from the actually forgo…
Explaining the Level of Bridewealth
Marriage Payments: A Fundamental Reconsideration
Marriage payments: a fundamental reconsiderationAbstract This paper is a constructive critique of the well-known book by Jack Goody and Stanley Tambiah (1973), Bridewealth and Dowry. Given the general acceptance of Goody's framework in contemporary studies of marriage and marriage payments, it is essential that we refer to this framework as we advance new theoretical concepts of marriage-related socio-economic processes. As some reviews of this p…
Identity and Social Innovation
Foundational to this discussion are two papers on "identity" by George A. Akerlof and Rachel Kranton [2000, 2005]. We contribute to their development of this issue with additional factors that are arguably essential to the analysis of identity formation. While they indicate the importance of norms as the bases of identity, we suggest additionally the relevance of independence, individual creativity and the exploration of behaviors beyond norms. A…
"A Comment on Lambek's "Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte
Reader's Commentary
Indebtedness in black and white families
The Reluctant Ally: France and Atlantic Security
"A Comment on Lambek's "Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte
Explaining the Level of Bridewealth
On the Nature of Sharing: Beyond the Range of Methodological Individualism
Altruism and Beyond: An Economic Analysis of Transfers and Exchanges within Families and Groups. Oded Stark
Defining Marriage and Legitimacy
A cross-culturally valid conception of marriage must begin with a definition of husband-wife and with a distinction between spouses and lovers. From this perspective we find that marriage is an institution by which men are provided (socially supported) rights to women. Typically, this institution is embedded within a domestic group wherein a multiplicity of other rights and responsibilities are assigned. Hence, the definition of marriage attribut…
Wealth Transfers Occasioned by Marriage: A Comparative Reconsideration
INTRODUCTION The theory of marriage payments has been oriented toward explaining why various categories of practice take place under particular ecological and technological conditions (Bossen 1988; Goody 1973; Spiro 1975; Harrel and Dickey 1985; Kressel 1977; Schlegel and Eloul 1988; Tambiah 1989; and others). This effort has been productive of a wide range of important analytical findings. However, the results of this chapter suggest that some o…
Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are relat…
Property and Propriety: Reply
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology. Stephen Gudeman. ed. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1998.576 pp
Guanxi: A Nesting of Groups
Theory in economic anthropology
Chapter 1 Introduction: Theory in Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century Part 2 Part I: The New Institutionalism Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Property Rights and Incentives for Agricultural Growth: Women Farmer's Crop Control and their Use of Agricultural Inputs Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, Problems and Possibilities Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Experimental Economics: A Powerful New Method for Theory Testing in Ant…
Money as Struggle, Nationhood, Domination
"Gay Marriage" in a Society without Marriage: Marriage and Family
Preface to Structure and Dynamics: 1#3
We institute here a policy of occasionally publishing noteworthy PhD dissertations that advance anthropology or related sciences. Such publications are to be copy edited by the dissertation author, nominated by the author's PhD committee, and must receive unqualified support in our review process of at least two assigned referees, as well as by the editors of Structure and Dynamics
Destroying the Remembered and Recovering the Forgotten in Chai: Between Traditionalism and Modernity in Beijing
Beijing is currently undergoing a host of dramatic changes, as reflected in the popular symbol chai (see pdf for characters). Chai means destruction; but it also refers to antiquated things or ideas that should be destroyed. By presenting chai, one is able to arouse into memory certain forgotten things that previously rested in the background. However, the reconstructed forgotten memories that one actually remembers differ from the actually forgo…
Introduction to Structure and Dynamics: Inaugural Issue
In inaugurating the Structure and Dynamics journal, we offer a conduit for refereed electronic publication, debate, and editorial communication in the domain of anthropology and human sciences. We as editors dedicate our effort to facilitating and disseminating interdisciplinary discussion and research in anthropology and related sciences. We invite you-as a subscribed reader at no cost-to contribute and to participate in raising the aspirations …
Miaohui, the Temples Meeting Festival in North China
We examine the multiple purposes and modalities that converge during a circuit of festivals, miaohui, which temples organize in recognition of local gods and which are attended reciprocally by temple representatives from the surrounding area in North China. The festivals involve intense expressions of devotion to one or more deities, while offering an opportunity for representatives of other villages to seek recognition through rather boisterous …
Identity and Social Innovation
Foundational to this discussion are two papers on "identity" by George A. Akerlof and Rachel Kranton [2000, 2005]. We contribute to their development of this issue with additional factors that are arguably essential to the analysis of identity formation. While they indicate the importance of norms as the bases of identity, we suggest additionally the relevance of independence, individual creativity and the exploration of behaviors beyond norms. A…
Marriage Payments: A Fundamental Reconsideration
Marriage payments: a fundamental reconsiderationAbstract This paper is a constructive critique of the well-known book by Jack Goody and Stanley Tambiah (1973), Bridewealth and Dowry. Given the general acceptance of Goody's framework in contemporary studies of marriage and marriage payments, it is essential that we refer to this framework as we advance new theoretical concepts of marriage-related socio-economic processes. As some reviews of this p…
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