Family, gender and kinship in Australia : the social and cultural logic of practice and subjectivity
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Bibliographic Information
Family, gender and kinship in Australia : the social and cultural logic of practice and subjectivity
（Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific）
Ashgate, c2006
Available at 9 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [183]-192
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gender and kinship in Australia, which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that underlies kinship practices and argues that the Australian family is characterized by deep cultural and social continuities rather than the common view that the family is undergoing substantial change. He further shows how the modern family both shapes, and is shaped by, broad social and economic processes. This analysis provides greater insight into this critical field of practice as well as showcasing a novel analytical approach to practice that is rooted in the sociology of practice and in the anthropology of cognition. The book also suggests changes to the way in which social scientists currently treat family and kinship.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Project and the Field
- Chapter 2 The Historical Evolution of the Australian Family
- Chapter 3 Contemporary Patterns of Family Practice: Historical Continuity and the Myth of Crisis
- Chapter 4 The Doxic Family
- Chapter 5 Doxa, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
- Chapter 6 Structural Aspects of Kinship
- Chapter 7 Internalized Gender Structures
- Chapter 8 Family and Gender, and Society at Large
- Chapter 9 Some Theoretical and Methodological Elaborations
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