American Kinship: A Cultural Account

by David Murray Schneider

Book Overview

American Kinship is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the study of anthropologically more familiar, but less differentiated societies. He goes to the heart of the ideology of relations among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226739309
• ISBN13: 9780226739304
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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