Kinship, Networks, and Exchange

✍ Scribed by Thomas Schweizer, Douglas R. White

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 349
Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The intent of this collection of original essays is to revitalize the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. The collection combines studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources. This book marks the emergence of a new era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.

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