Book
Kinship and marriage in Burma: a cultural and psychodynamic analysis
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Spiro, Melford E..
Abstract
This book is concerned with kinship and marriage among villagers in Yeigyi, a locality in Upper Burma. The focus is partly theoretical, exploring the extent to which psychodynamic personality theory, in conjunction with functionalist cultural theory, could be fruitfully used as an analytical framework for collecting, organizing and interpreting ethnographic data.
- Subjects
- Household
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Sex training
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Ethnopsychology
- Drives and emotions
- Social personality
- Sex and marital offenses
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Premarital sex relations
- Extramarital sex relations
- Status of children
- Puberty and initiation
- Sexuality
- General sex restrictions
- Regulation of marriage
- Gender status
- Division of labor by gender
- culture
- Burmans
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field Date
- 1961-1972
- Coverage Date
- 1961-1972
- Coverage Place
- Yeigyi village, Upper Burma (central and northern Burma)
- Notes
- Melford E. Spiro
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-304) and index
- LCCN
- 76007768
- LCSH
- Kinship--Burma
- Marriage--Burma
- Burma--Social life and customs