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American Kinship
Language: en
Pages: 149
Authors: David Murray Schneider
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980-03-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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American Kinship is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally inter
American Kinship
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: David M. Schneider
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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American Kinship is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally inter
Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Raymond Thomas Smith
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In this volume an international group of anthropologists and historians examines the complex relationships between family life, culture, and economic change in
Transforming the Past
Language: en
Pages: 608
Authors: Sylvia Yanagisako
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-03-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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This book is at once a cultural history of Japanese American kinship and a contribution to the study of the contemporary kinship system of the United States. It
Families and Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Ira Berlin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: The New Press

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Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tum