Variance in American kinship
Implications for Cultural Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7572273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yanagisako (0000-0001-5618-5620, Stanford University, corresponding author), Sylvia Junko Yanagisako |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-29 |
| Publication date | 1978-02-01 |
| 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.1978.5.1.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2112692228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 9 |
The question of variance in American kinship provides a rich basis for a discussion of several critical conceptual, theoretical, and methodological Issues embedded in the cultural analysis of kinship or any other cultural domain. The paper begins with an examination of the extent to which David Schneider's cultural account of American kinship represents and explicates the symbolic system of second‐generation Japanese‐Americans. This leads to the major theoretical problem: the way in which we formulate heuristic levels of analysis and construe their interrelationships. An explication of the theoretical consequences of Schneider's scheme of the behavioral, normative, and cultural systems and his articulation of the “pure” and “conglomerate” levels of the cultural system compels us to reassess the goals of cultural analysis and suggests the kind of theory of meaning and action that will prove most instructive in such an endeavor
Articulation (sociology · Cultural analysis · Epistemology · Explication · Kinship · Meaning (existential · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Variance (accounting · Anthropology · Historical Studies of British Isles · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy
Alternative Kinship, Marriage, and Reproduction
Aids, Culture, and Gay Men
Kinship Studies in Late Twentieth-Century Anthropology
The child's knowledge of English kin terms
Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan
Recomposing kinship
Bioarchaeology and Kinship
American kinship
Recruitment Strategies for Household Succession
Can American Social Science Majors Acquire an International Perspective
The nonsharing of medical knowledge among spiritualist healers and their patients
Fractured insurance families
Russian Refugee Families
Kinship Theory in Archaeology
Marriage, descent and kinship
What even the cowherds and women know
Making Kin
In-law relationships in the American kinship system
Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year
Ethnology
Two Processes of Change in Japanese-American Kinship
Japanese Rural Society
American Kinship
The Interpretation of Symbolism
Women-Centered Kin Networks in Urban Bilateral Kinship
Birds, Words, and a Requiem for the Omniscient Informant1
Gift giving and reciprocity among the Japanese Americans in Honolulu1
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2025 (46) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |