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Kinship in Bali

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ISBN-10:

0226285154

ISBN-13:

9780226285153

Author(s): Geertz, Hildred
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1975
Format: Hardcover, 213 pages
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Description:

This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.












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