American Kinship: A Cultural Account

摘要: "American Kinship" is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, not simply network functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that study highly differentiated society such our own may be more revealing nature than anthropologically familiar, but less societies. He goes heart ideology relations among relatives in America by locating underlying features definition kinship-nature vs. law, substance code. One most significant Kinship," then, explicit development theory culture on which analysis based, has since proved valuable other cultures. For this Phoenix edition, written substantial new chapter, responding his critics recounting charges thought book was published 1968.