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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.TABLE OF CONTENTSList of Figures.Preface.Part I: Basic Concepts:.1. Introductory.2. Descent.3. The Family and Other Kin Groupings.4. Marriage and Sexual Relations.5. Kinship (Relationship) Terminology.6. Symmetric Affinal Alliance.7. Asymmetric Affinal Alliance.8. FZD and ZD Marriage.9. Non-prescriptive Pseudo-systems.10. The Meaning of Kinship.Part II: Theories of Kinship:.11. The Significance of Kinship in Anthropology.12. Theories of Descent.13. Kinship Terminology and Affinal Alliance.14. Typologies and Terminological Change.15. Ethnographic Examples and Further Reading.Bibliography.Index.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert Parkin
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780631203599
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Anthropology, Social_sciences