TY - BOOK AU - Geertz, Hildred. AU - ; Geertz, Clifford. AU - Hildred Geertz. TI - Kinship in Bali U1 - 301.42 GEE PY - 1975/// CY - Chicago PB - : University of Chicago Press KW - Kinship KW - Kinship in Bali KW - Balinese kinship in English N2 - 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 ER -