Kinship: an introduction to the basic concepts / Robert Parkin
1998, Reprint. Oxford: Blackwell. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #354266
ISBN: 0631203591
Physical description: xi, 208 pages; 24 cm. Contents: 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 -- 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. Subjects: Kinship. Consanguinity. Anthropology.
Price: €30.00