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American Kinship (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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American Kinship (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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"American Kinship" is the first attempt to deal systematically with
kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a
network of functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider
argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as
our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the
study of anthropologically more familiar, but less differentiated
societies. He goes to the heart of the ideology of relations among
relatives in America by locating the underlying features of the
definition of kinship--nature vs. law, substance vs. code. One of
the most significant features of "American Kinship," then, is the
explicit development of a theory of culture on which the analysis
is based, a theory that has since proved valuable in the analysis
of other cultures. For this Phoenix edition, Schneider has written
a substantial new chapter, responding to his critics and recounting
the charges in his thought since the book was first published in
1968.
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