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

By Robert Parkin

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781800731677
DOI
10.1515/9781800731677
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1091052 bytes)
Pages
310\312
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:30:47

Description

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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