In:Coherence
T. Givón
[Not in series 230] 2020
► pp. 59–82
Chapter 4Cultural coherence
The Society of Intimates
Published online: 15 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.230.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.230.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.1.1The social context of inter-personal cooperation and communication
- 4.1.2Rational choice vs. implicit conventions
- 4.2The Society of Intimates
- 4.2.1Preliminaries
- 4.2.2General characteristics
- 4.3Kinship-based cooperation: The Trobriand case
- 4.3.1Land ownership, land-use and residence
- 4.3.2Kinship and marriage
- 4.3.3The life-cycle of cooperation
- 4.3.4Kinship and reciprocity
- 4.3.5The adaptive logic of the Trobriand yam exchange
- 4.4Reciprocity and kinship hierarchies: Ute
- 4.5Dealing with strangers
- 4.5.1Estrangement and de-alienation: The Western Apache
- 4.5.2Other contexts of de-alienation
- 4.6Mitigating the hazards of communication
- 4.6.1Preamble
- 4.6.2Private discourse and the costs of new information
- 4.7Culture a mechanism for automated social action
- 4.8The persistent relevance of the Society of Intimates
- 4.9Closure
- a.Cultural coherence
- b.Public intimacy
- c.Residual spheres of intimacy
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