Book
Kinship and marriage in Burma: a cultural and psychodynamic analysis
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Spiro, Melford E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Burmans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1961-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yeigyi village, Upper Burma (central and northern Burma)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Melford E. Spiro
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-304) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76007768
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kinship--Burma
- Marriage--Burma
- Burma--Social life and customs