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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David ParkinPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Blackwell Publishers Edition: annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 16.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.494kg ISBN: 9780631203582ISBN 10: 0631203583 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 14 April 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Part I: Basic Concepts:. 1. Introductory. 2. Descent. 3. The Family and Other Kin Groupings. 4. Marriage and Sexual Relations. 5. Kinship (Relationship) Terminology. 6. Symmetric Affinal Alliance. 7. Asymmetric Affinal Alliance. 8. FZD and ZD Marriage. 9. Non--prescriptive Pseudo--systems. 10. The Meaning of Kinship. Part II: Theories of Kinship:. 11. The Significance of Kinship in Anthropology. 12. Theories of Descent. 13. Kinship Terminology and Affinal Alliance. 14. Typologies and Terminological Change. 15. Ethnographic Examples and Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationRobert Parkin trained at the University of Oxford, where he took his doctorate for a thesis on kinship in tribal India, which was later published by Oxford University Press as The Munda of Central India. He has written extensively on kinship, both theoretically and ethnographically. He is the author of a study of the life and work of the early French sociologist of religion, Robert Hertz, The Dark Side of Humanity (1996), and of A Guide to Austroasiatic Speakers and their Languages (1991). He is currently teaching at the Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes, having previously taught at the Free University of Berlin and the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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