Name: Access to Origins: Affines, Ancestors, and Aristocrats (en Inglés)
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Author: Mary W. Helms
ISBN: 9780292723740

portada Access to Origins: Affines, Ancestors, and Aristocrats (en Inglés)

Access to Origins: Affines, Ancestors, and Aristocrats (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Texas Press

Autor

Mary W. Helms

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0292723741

ISBN13

9780292723740

Categorías

Antropología social y cultural, etnografía

Access to Origins: Affines, Ancestors, and Aristocrats (en Inglés)

Mary W. Helms (Autor) · University Of Texas Press · Tapa Blanda

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In many non-industrial, non-Western societies, power and prestige are closely linked to the extent of an individual's or group's perceived connection to the supernatural realm, which also explains and validates tangible activities such as economic success, victories in war, or control over lucrative trade. Affines (in-laws), ancestors, and aristocrats, in particular, are connected to the realm of creative cosmological origins (i.e., to Genesis), which accords them distinctive, supernatural powers and gives them a natural and legitimate right to worldly authority. This is the hypothesis that Mary W. Helms pursues in this broadly cross-cultural study of aristocracy in chiefly societies. She begins with basic ideas about the dead, ancestors, affines, and concepts of cosmological origins. This leads her to a discussion of cosmologically defined hierarchies, the qualities that characterize aristocracy, and the political and ideological roles of aristocrats as wife-givers and wife-takers (that is, as in-laws). She concludes by considering various models that explain how societies may develop or define aristocracies.