Reconnecting State and Kinship

Within the social sciences, kinship and statehood are often seen as two distinct modes of social organization, sometimes conceived of as following each other in a temporal line and sometimes as operating on different scales. Kinship is traditionally associated with small-scale communities in stateless societies. The state, meanwhile, is viewed as a development away from kinship as political order toward rational, impersonal, and functional forms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249518
• ISBN13: 9780812249514
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"