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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- How Kinship Systems Change : On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
- Ort / Verlag
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books
- Erscheinungsjahr
- [2021]
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- Beschreibungen/Notizen
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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
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781800731677DOI: 10.1515/9781800731677Titel-ID: 99371707340906441
- Format
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Schlagworte
- Cross-cousin marriage, Crow Indians / Kinship, Kinship / India, Kinship, Marriage / Social aspects, Omaha Indians / Kinship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social