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Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness

Peter P. Schweitzer

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Description:This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identities - such as gender, power and history. With examples from a wide range of areas including Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon, it covers themes such as:* how people choose and activate kin* leadership, spiritual power and kinship* inheritance, marriage and social inequality* familial sentiment and economic interest* the role of kinship in Utopian communesDividends of Kinship provides a timely and critical reappraisal of the place of familial relations in the contemporary world. It will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in anthropology, and across the social sciences.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness. To get started finding Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identities - such as gender, power and history. With examples from a wide range of areas including Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon, it covers themes such as:* how people choose and activate kin* leadership, spiritual power and kinship* inheritance, marriage and social inequality* familial sentiment and economic interest* the role of kinship in Utopian communesDividends of Kinship provides a timely and critical reappraisal of the place of familial relations in the contemporary world. It will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in anthropology, and across the social sciences.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness. To get started finding Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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