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How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1800731663
ISBN13: 9781800731660
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jul 16 2021
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.

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