Rengsanggri; Family and Kinship in a Garo Village

African Family and Kinship

Targeting cyclone relief within the village: kinship, sharing, and capture.

This article investigates the targeting of cyclone relief within villages in Fiji. It focuses on how relief allocation is linked with informal risk sharing and elite capture, both of which are directly related to kinship. The results are as follows. First, food aid is initially targeted toward kin groups according to their aggregate shocks and then shared among group members. Right after the cy...

Family and Kinship in East London

Here is a full and balanced account of working-class relationships which makes interesting and fruitful reading. The samples used may be small but they are presented in an ordered and convincing way; and although the main feature is the distinctive framework of Bethnal Green yet, basically the conclusion reached seems to be that it has much in common with other comparable urban communities with...

A psychosocial kinship model for family therapy.

Family therapy has traditionally centered on the nuclear family and thus has been typically oriented toward urban white middle-class families. A variety of modifications in therapeutic technique has evolved for work with the many modern families whose structure consists of a functional psychosocial family kinship. The authors have developed a formal theoretical framework and model for family th...

Kinship, Family, and Gender Effects in the Ultimatum Game.

Kinship and reciprocity are two main predictors of altruism. The ultimatum game has been used to study altruism in many small-scale societies. We used the ultimatum game to examine effects of individuals' family and kin relations on altruistic behavior in a kin-based horticultural community in rural Dominica. Results show sex-specific effects of kin on ultimatum game play. Average coefficient o...