Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:James P. Ito-Adler (Editor), Parker Shipton (Editor)Publish date:2024-12-01Pages:302
Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781805397984ISBN-10:1805397982UPC:9781805397984Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Social TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC0W1C1QZC
Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience
Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range from the purely...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781805397984ISBN-10:1805397982UPC:9781805397984Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Social TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC0W1C1QZC
Parker Shipton is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Boston University. He has served as president of the Association for Africanist Anthropology. Some of his publications include Bitter Money (American Anthropological Association,1989), The Nature of Entrustment (Yale University Press, 2007) which won the Herskovits Prize, and Mortgaging the Ancestors: Credit between Cultures (Yal...
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