How kinship systems change : on the dialectics of practice and classification /
"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, linkin...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York :
Berghahn Books
2021.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv31xf4t0 |
| Shrnutí: | "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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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800731677 1800731671 9781800731660 1800731663 |