Julian Pitt-Rivers's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
This paper argues that the opposition between kin and friend is analytically misleading. Analogously, the notion of “fictive kinship” is unsuitable to describe forms of relatedness such as blood brotherhood, god parenthood, or “friendship” itself. Each of these social forms generates contradictions that ideas of kinship cannot fully resolve, and th...
Citations
... She actualises the emotional rule of 'being happy for others', and embodies the inseparable link between emotional and material generosity (see also Mains, 2013). She portrays herself as a 'generous heart', thus letting this display of appropriate feelings soften her highly calculative rhetoric (on the fear of appearing calculating within relations, see Pitt-Rivers, 2016). She says: ...
