How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

By Robert Parkin

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Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.


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Publish date July 16, 2021
Publisher Berghahn Books
Format Library Binding
Pages 310
ISBN 9781800731660
1800731663

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