Geertz, Hildred. creator ; Geertz, Clifford. creator Hildred Geertz. text Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1975 monographic eng

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viii, 215p. : 24cm. 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. /Hildred Geertz. Kinship Kinship in Bali Balinese kinship in English 301.42 GEE Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 250929 20250929135818.0