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This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.

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Author:   David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780631203582

ISBN 10:   0631203583
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 April 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Robert 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.

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