Toward a Complex Model of Parenthood
Two African tales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2466142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Houseman (0000-0002-3924-8893, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 658-677 |
| Publication date | 1988-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1988.15.4.02a00040 |
| OpenAlex | W2099117847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 16 |
The analysis of two African folktales suggests a novel cross-cultural model of parenthood. It is argued that the representation of jural mother- and fatherhood are universally constrained by the limiting conditions of their relationship. These conditions are defined by alternative hierarchical schemes in which fatherhood in one case, and motherhood in the other, are defined recursively: the fulfillment of fatherhood relies upon an identification with prior fatherhood, that of motherhood upon an opposition to prior motherhood
Limiting · Opposition (politics · Political science · Representation · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships
Emergent Properties
Losing (out on) Intellectual Resources
Introduction
Divided Origins and the Arithmetic of Ownership
Introduction
Embedded Science
The Patent and the Malanggan
Relatives Are Always a Surprise
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
The Patent and the Malanggan
Losing (out on) intellectual resources
What is a parent
Maternal Nurturing Substance and Paternal Spirit
Marginalization of African single mothers in the marriage market
Gender
Kinship as a Relation
Androgynous Parents and Guest Children
Rethinking the Couvade
Cosmic reproduction, economics and politics among the Kulina of Southwest Amazonia
Kinship as Logic of Space
Translation
Transformations of Dumont
Kinship and the Social Order.
Maidens, meal, and money
Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year
Polythetic Classification
Rethinking Anthropology
Introduction à deux théories d'anthropologie sociale
Rethinking Kinship and Marriage
A Critique of the Study of Kinship
Les artifices de la logique initiatique
Research Practices in the Study of Kinship
Physical and Social Kinship
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology
Un tsógó chez les Eton
Social structure is where the hearth is
The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups1
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2018 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |