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Title Dividends of kinship : meanings and uses of social relatedness / edited by Peter Schweitzer.

Publication Info. London : Routledge, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 221 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series European Association of Social Anthropologists
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
Summary Annotation This collection reasserts the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology. The contributors look at both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures, and examine how "relatedness" is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identity -- such as gender, power and history. The contributors look at constructions of heredity and relatedness in a wide range of areas, including Greenland, Turkey, Portugal and across South America. Taking a theoretically-informed approach, they examine contentious themes, such as the relationship of communal living to concepts of kinship, and differences between rural and urban conceptions of the family. This volume provides a long overdue, critical reappraisal of the place of familial relations within the contemporary world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Choosing kin : sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community -- Power and kinship in Shuar and Achuar society -- On the importance of being the last one : inheritance and marriage in an Austrian peasant community -- Kinship, reciprocity and the world market -- Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises? -- 'Philoprogenitiveness' through the cracks : on the resilience and benefits of kinship in Utopian communities.
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Subject Kinship -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Kinship.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Families -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Families -- Cross-cultural studies.
Indexed Term Social relatedness
EASA
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Schweitzer, Peter P.
Other Form: Print version: Dividends of kinship. London : Routledge, 2000 (DLC) 99047551
ISBN 0203449754 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780203449752 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780415182836
0415182832
0415182832 (cloth)
0415182840 (paperback)