Kinship: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts

✍ Scribed by Robert Parkin

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 Contents

Contents
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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