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How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Robert Parkin

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik

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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.

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Anthropology (General), Sociology