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Kinship, Networks, and Exchange: 12 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 12) - Softcover

Schweizer, Thomas

 
9780521084741: Kinship, Networks, and Exchange: 12 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 12)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521084741 ISBN 13: 9780521084741
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.

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Book Description

This collection of original essays intends to revitalize the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. Studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent are combined with investigations of the flow of material resources.

Synopsis

This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521084741
ISBN 13 
9780521084741
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
352