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What Kinship Is - and Is Not

Paperback • 2014 • English

What Kinship Is - and Is Not

By Marshall Sahlins

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About the book

What Kinship Is-And Is Not offers, on its surface, a simple theoretical argument, laid out in the titles of its mere two chapters: kinship is culture, not biology. But along the way to proving his point, Marshall Sahlins engages a dazzling array of thinkers, from Aristotle to Emile Durkheim to Marilyn Strathern, bolstering that conversation with an equally dazzling array of ethnographic examples from around the globe. The result is a thrilling combination of clarity and erudition almed at the he...Show more

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ISBN

9780226214290

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

What Kinship Is - and Is Not

Format

Paperback

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