Kinship An Introduction to the Basic Concepts

Name: Kinship An Introduction to the Basic Concepts
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ISBN: 9780631203582

ISBN-10: 0631203583

ISBN-13: 9780631203582

Edition: 1997

Authors: David Parkin, David Parkin

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Parkin provides an introduction to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family, and to the means by which one generation relates to those that come before and after it.

Book details

List price: $141.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/28/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.36" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of Figures


Preface



Basic Concepts



Introductory



Descent



The Family and Other Kin Groupings



Marriage and Sexual Relations



Kinship (Relationship) Terminology



Symmetric Affinal Alliance



Asymmetric Affinal Alliance



FZD and ZD Marriage



Non-prescriptive Pseudo-systems



The Meaning of Kinship



Theories of Kinship



The Significance of Kinship in Anthropology



Theories of Descent



Kinship Terminology and Affinal Alliance



Typologies and Terminological Change



Ethnographic Examples and Further Reading


Bibliography


Index