Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together.
This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis
of these systems and how and why they change. The editors bring
together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and
linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to
reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Kinship Systems presents
evidence of renewed activity and advances in this field in recent
years which will contribute to the current interdisciplinary focus
on the evolution of society. While all continents are touched on in
this book, there is special emphasis on Australian indigenous
societies, which have been a source of fascination in kinship
studies.
One key argument in the book is that linguistic evidence for
reconstruction of ancient terminologies can provide strong
independent evidence to complement anthropologists' notions of
structural kinship transformations and ground them in actual
historical and geographical contexts. There are principles that we
all share, no matter what kind of society we live in, and these
provide a common "language" for anthropology and linguistics. With
this language we can accurately compare how family relations are
organized in different societies, as well as how we talk about such
relations. Because this concept has often been denied by the
trajectories in anthropology over the last few decades, "Kinship
Systems "represents a reassertion of, and advances on, classical
kinship theory and methods. Innovations and interdisciplinary
methods are described by the originators of the new approaches and
other leading regional experts.
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