Property, kinship and cultural capital: The ethics of modelling kinship in sustainable resource management

From: Anthropologica | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Lovell, Peter; Wiber, Melanie G | Copyright information

Keywords: kinship, law, social capital, resource management

Introduction(1)

Painstaking and prolonged fieldwork provides many anthropologists with an understanding of both the centrality of and the flexibility in kinship rules for distributing rights in and for managing use of resources. However, conceptualizing and communicating that importance across disciplinary boundaries is often very difficult. The specialized language of kinship, taken together with the myriad and hi...

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