Change and stability: Agta kinship in a history of uncertainty

The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resources on the availability and quality of social connections. With whom the Agta work is more important to them than whether they act as foragers, traders, paramilitary scouts, farmers, or wage laborers. They work as kinfolk. I use a formal theory of kinship (Lehman and Witz 1974, Witz and Lehman 1979, Lehman 1993) to illustrate how Agta society operates through kinship. This study demonstrates that social relations are not necessarily products of economic systems.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

1996

Author dc:creator

• Griffin, Marcus Bion

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lehman, Frederic K.

• Anthropology, Cultural

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Griffin, Marcus Bion

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591198294
AAI9712289
(UMI)AAI9712289

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19386