A Critique of the Study of Kinship

by David Murray Schneider

Book Overview

Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at all underneath those clothes. And even when the clothes appear to be shreds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472080512
• ISBN13: 9780472080519
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"