Kinship, Networks, and Exchange

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: August 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THOMAS SCHWEIZER and DOUGLAS R. WHITE (eds.), Kinship, Networks, and Exchange. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xi + 337 p.

There was a time in anthropology, a long time, when the collection data on and the analysis of kinship systems were assumed to be essential and reached a sophisticated level of intellectual argument. Indeed, some experienced anthropologists claimed, at least half seriously, that the one thing that characterized the discipline and distinguished it from other social sciences was the study of kinship. That specialization seems to have slipped away ...

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