American Kinship: A Cultural Account
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American Kinship is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the study of anthropologically more familiar, but less differentiated societies. He goes to the heart of the ideology of relations among...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226739309
ISBN13:9780226739304
Release Date:March 1980
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:148 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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