Kinship
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This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship– to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family, and to the means by which one generation relates to those that come before and after it. It is addressed in particular to students of anthropology, but is also intended as a one–volume guide to those, such as social historians, demographers and geographers, who find it necessary to understand patterns of kinship in different places and at different times. The book is divided into two parts. Part I opens with a discussion of what kinship means to the social anthropologist asdistinct from the biologist, and considers the different possible approaches to the subject within social anthropology itself. The following chapters cover topics such as descent, inheritance, succession, the family, residence, marriage, kinship terminology, systems of affinal alliance, the new reproductive technologies, and...Похожие книги
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