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Kinship in Bali by Hildred Geertz, Clifford Geertz, Hidred Geertz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Kinship in Bali about?
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.
Who reads Kinship in Bali?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hildred Geertz, Clifford Geertz, Hidred Geertz
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1975
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226285160
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 3.62 / 5 (13 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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