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Dividends of kinship : meanings and uses of social relatedness / edited by Peter P. Schweitzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
- European Association of Social Anthropologists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kinship--Cross-cultural studies.
- Kinship.
- Families--Cross-cultural studies.
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology with examples from areas such as Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Choosing kin: sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community; Power and kinship in Shuar and Achuar society; On the importance of being the last one: inheritance and marriage in an Austrian peasant community; Kinship, reciprocity and the world market; Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?; 'Philoprogenitiveness' through the cracks: on the resilience and benefits of kinship in Utopian communes; Concluding remarks; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-73972-9
- 0-203-45980-6
- 1-280-07511-2
- 0-203-44975-4
- 1-134-73973-7
- 9780203449752
- OCLC:
- 229923540
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