What Kinship Is-And Is Not

by Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and L vy- Bruhl to mile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on a breadth of theory and a range of ethnographic examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621429X
• ISBN13: 9780226214290
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.7"