Vol 1, No 1 (2011)

The G-Factor of Anthropology: Archaeologies of Kin(g)ship

Edited by Giovanni da Col (Cambridge) and Stéphane Gros (CNRS)

The phoneme that separates the English words "kinship" and "kingship" deserves to be known as the "g" factor in history.
– Luc de Heusch

Table of Contents

Front & Back Matter

Front & Back Matter EPUB PDF
  i–v

Editorial

Foreword: The return of ethnographic theory EPUB PDF
Giovanni da Col, David Graeber vi–xxxv

Themed Articles

The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition, or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty EPUB PDF
David Graeber 1–62
Twin-born with greatness: the dual kingship of Sparta EPUB PDF
Marshall Sahlins 63–101
Copernican kinship: an origin myth for the category EPUB PDF
Gregory Schrempp 103–139
Daribi kinship at perpendicular angles: A trompe l'oeil anthropology EPUB PDF
Alberto Corsín Jiménez 141–157
The chess of kinship and the kinship of chess (Preface by Tony Crook and Justin Shaffner, Roy Wagner’s “The chess of kinship”: an opening gambit) EPUB PDF
Roy Wagner 159–177
Skinship: Touchability as a virtue in East-Central India EPUB PDF
Chris Gregory 179–209

Varia

Ethnography as theory EPUB PDF
Laura Nader 211–219
Mixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an ethnographic experiment EPUB PDF
Anna M. Mann, Annemarie M. Mol, Priya Satalkar, Amalinda Savirani, Nasima Selim, Malini Sur, Emily Yates-Doerr 221–243

Unedited Scholarship

What is a parent? EPUB PDF
Marilyn Strathern 245–278
Kingship and divinity: The unpublished Frazer Lecture, Oxford, 28 October 1982 EPUB PDF
Edmund R. Leach 279–298

Forum

Von Hügel’s curiosity: Encounter and experiment in the new museum EPUB PDF
Nicholas Thomas 299–314

Translations

Bodies, kinship and power(s) in the Baruya culture EPUB PDF
Maurice Godelier 315–344
Begetting ordinary humans EPUB PDF
Maurice Godelier 345–389
Begetting extraordinary humans EPUB PDF
Maurice Godelier 391–406

Reprints

The divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan: The Frazer Lecture, 1948 EPUB PDF
E .E. Evans-Pritchard 407–422
The place of grace in anthropology EPUB PDF
Julian Pitt-Rivers 423–450
Some muddles in the models: or, how the system really works EPUB PDF
David M. Schneider 451–492


ISSN: 2049-1115