What Kinship Is-And Is Not

Name: What Kinship Is-And Is Not
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ISBN: 9780226214290

ISBN-10: 022621429X

ISBN-13: 9780226214290

Edition: 2014

Authors: Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins

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In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on a breadth of theory and a range of ethnographic examples to form an acute definition of kinship, what he calls the "mutuality of being." Kinfolk are persons who are parts of one another to the extent that what happens to one is felt by the other. Meaningfully and emotionally, relatives live each…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.88" long x 0.03" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books.