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Kinship in Bali

Kinship in Bali

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0226285162
ISBN13: 9780226285160
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Aug 15 1978
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of kinship system. Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.

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