Harold W Scheffler

Biographic Data

ID81323
NAMEHarold W Scheffler
GIVEN NAMESHarold W
FAMILY NAMEScheffler
SIGNATURESCHEFFLER H W
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS69
TOTAL CITATIONS239
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX9

  • Sexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERGender at the Crossroads of…2023

  • Patrifiliation Sufficient but Not Necessary I

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    C. D. Forde describes Yako "patricians" as corporate, but by that he means only that each has rights to exclusive use of a dwelling area in the village and to administration of areas of farm land outside the village. A more probable candidate, at least in regard to Yako kepun and eponama, is something taken from the lexicon of local or residential groups. Where patrifiliation is a merely sufficient condition for inclusion in a group, membership i…

  • Cognatic Descent Groups?

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    This chapter considers whether, when simple filiation is a condition for inclusion in a group, it is possible for relations of descent to have jural or structural values in intra- or intergroup relations. The openness of a ramage to everyone who appears in its cognatic descent category is not generally taken literally, and it is often no more than a way of talking about kinship and its duties and obligations. However, many ramages have become ent…

  • Jural Structures I

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    Jural itself means "of or pertaining to rights and duties". Therefore, a jural rule is a specification of the rights and duties entailed by occupying a specified social position or by having a specified social status. Jural rules certainly do regulate or govern social action or conduct, and they do that by specifying the rights and duties of persons or of sets of persons vis-a-vis one another. If membership itself is a matter of little or no jura…

  • Jural Structures II

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    This chapter focuses on social sets or groups and, in particular, on those constituted by rules of filiation and affiliation. Like other kinds of social group, these may or may not be right- and duty-bearing units, that is jural entities, and if they are jural entities the rights attached to them may be either special or general or both. Social groups and other culturally constituted kinds of entity may be treated jurally as person-like by attrib…

  • Patrifiliation Sufficient but Not Necessary II

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    J. A. Barnes pointed out that, because patrifiliation is a condition for inclusion in highlands&s; groups, there may be superficial similarities between them and groups described as lineages in the African literature. What it is not difficult to find are groups for inclusion in which patrifiliation is a merely sufficient condition, and that difference accounts for many of the ways in which social groups and intergroup relations in the highlands d…

  • Descent Groups

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    The questions of how best to define "descent" and "descent groups" came to the fore once again in the 1950s, in part as a consequence of a great expansion of academic anthropology and of ethnographic fieldwork following World War II, especially in the Pacific, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa. In contrast, affiliation with a nonunilineal descent group, although perhaps in some sense "automatic by birth", is not fixed and immutable but is or c…

  • Kinship and Descent

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    W. H. R. Rivers&s;s contribution, in various publications between 1907 and his posthumous Social Organization, has been highly influential, perhaps because in some ways it does not depart greatly from ordinary English usage of the key terms kinship, relationship, descent, inheritance, and succession. Indeed, in the past several decades Rivers has been widely cited as the authority for a distinction between "kinship" and "descent" which, it is som…

  • Patrifiliation Necessary and Sufficient

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    Descent groups and local groups are conceptually and empirically two quite different kinds of social entity, and no good can come of confusing one with the other. Because of all that, and because descent groups are self perpetuating and of indefinite duration, such groups are better suited to be also jural entities or jural collectivities than are groups for inclusion in which patrifiliation is merely necessary or merely sufficient. Among the Nue…

  • Patrifiliation Necessary but Not Sufficient

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    This chapter argues that patrifiliation is necessary but not sufficient for inclusion in a group, there can be no recruitment from the outside—just as where patrifiliation is the necessary and sufficient condition. As where patrifiliation is both necessary and sufficient, recruitment from the outside is not possible, but because affiliation requires credentials in addition to patrifiliation, it is not automatic by birth. Both kinds of group are n…

  • Joint-Family Systems

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERFiliation and Affiliation2018

    The village communities of southeast China and Taiwan are populated by families that are joint in both the usual anthropological senses. It is conventional for a man&s;s sons to bring their wives to live with him in his house or compound, and his sons are also joint owners with him of the family estate. When a family estate is divided, some portion of it may be set aside in the name of the deceased family head to remain joint property. If a sacri…

  • Filiation and Affiliation

    Harold W SchefflerARTICLEMan2018Cited by: 15References: 20

    General Considerations * Kinship and Descent * Descent Groups * Jural Structures, Part One * Jural Structures, Part Two Specific Instances * Patrifiliation, Necessary and Sufficient * Patrifiliation, Necessary but Not Sufficient, Part One * Patrifiliation, Necessary but Not Sufficient, Part Two * Patrifiliation, Sufficient but Not Necessary * Joint Family Systems * Cognatic Descent Groups * Concluding Observations

  • Book Note

    Open AccessHarold W SchefflerARTICLEMankind2009

    Book Note

  • Observations on The Fall of Kinship

    Harold W SchefflerARTICLEJournal of Cognition and Culture2003Cited by: 2

  • Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method

    Open AccessHarold W SchefflerREVIEWAmerican Anthropologist2003

    Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method. Thomas A. Gregory and Donald Tuzin. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 392 pp

  • A New System for the Formal Analysis of Kinship . Sydney H. Gould

    Harold W SchefflerARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2002

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology: Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture . Gilbert Herdt and Robert J. Stoller

    Open AccessHarold W SchefflerARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1992

  • Eleven. Sexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship

    Harold W SchefflerCHAPTERGender at the Crossroads of…1991

  • Markedness in Systems of Kin Classification

    Harold W SchefflerARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1987Cited by: 5

    J. Greenberg's hypotheses about markedness relations in systems of kin classification are reassessed and revised. It is shown that markedness may be associated with polysemy by specialization or with polysemy by generalization. The latter association is especially common in systems of kin classification because of the egocenteredness of such systems and because of the relative-product nature of the relations they include

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology: Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group. Robert McC. Netting, Richard R. Wilk . and Eric J. Arnould . eds

    Open AccessHarold W SchefflerARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1986Cited by: 2

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology: Two Crows Denies It: A History of Controversy in Omaha Sociology . R. H. Barnes

    Open AccessHarold W SchefflerARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1986

  • Extension Rules and "Generative" Models

    Open AccessHarold W SchefflerBOOKAmerican Ethnologist1986Cited by: 1References: 2

    This brief comment challenges Schneider's (AE 12:727-735) critique of extensionist models of kinship, arguing that his characterization of these models as "generative" is misleading. Scheffler clarifies that extensionist models do not aim to generate all possible kinship terms or systems, but rather to provide a framework for understanding the underlying logic of kinship classifications. He emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between the …

  • The Descent of Rights and the Descent of Persons

    Open AccessHarold W Scheffler, Harold SchefflerARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1986Cited by: 10References: 35

    Explication and evaluation of the relative ethnographic and theoretical merits of several constructions of "descent" and "descent groups" (by W. H. R. Rivers, M. Fortes, and W. Goodenough, among others) reveals that relations of descent can have right and duty values only where patri- or matrifiliation is the necessary and sufficient condition for inclusion in a social group. Therefore, only unilineally constituted groups should be described as d…

  • A Further Note on Kinship and Logic

    Open AccessHarold W SchefflerARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1985References: 6

  • Theory and method in the study of kinship

    Harold W SchefflerARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1985References: 3

    Barnard, Alan, and Anthony Good. Research Practices in the Study of Kinship. New York: Academic Press, 1984. xiv + 226 pp. including subject and author indices, and bibliography. $32.50 cloth