The book is a translation of Louis Dumont's lectures on kinship,
which provide a comprehensive but also idiosyncratic overview of
descent theory and alliance theory for students. These two
competing theories of kinship, associated respectively with the
British and French schools of social anthropology, as well as the
theoretical tendencies of functionalism and structuralism,
dominated anthropological theory from the 1950s to the 1970s and
are of fundamental historical significance. But Dumont's lectures
also have stood the test of time and provide an excellent
introductory account of kinship for the student. They also reflect
his own structuralist sympathies and critical acumen in assessing
the work of many of anthropology's great theoretical minds, among
which he himself should be numbered.
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