Remarks and Inventions: Skeptical Essays about Kinship

by Rodney Needham

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This volume scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional approaches and criteria. Exploring analysis and method in the disparity between relative age and kinship categories as means of social classification, the book makes theoretical readjustments, largely inspired by the precepts of Wittgenstein.
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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138878707

ISBN13:9781138878709

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:Routledge

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.49 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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