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028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors _b;7/22,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1077439 _d;07/06/2018
082			_a306.8 SCH
100			_aDavid Murray Schneider
245			_aAmerican kinship _b : a cultural account _c/David Murray Schneider
260			_aChicago _b: University of Chicago Press _c, 1980.
300			_ax, 137 pages _c; 24 cm
505			_a1. Introduction Part One: The Distinctive Features Which Define the Person as a Relative 2. Relatives 3. The Family Part Two: The Relative as a Person 4. A Relative Is a Person 5. In-laws and Kinship Terms 6. Conclusion 7. Twelve Years Later
520			_aAmerican 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 interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the study of anthropologically more familiar, but less differentiated societies. He goes to the heart of the ideology of relations among relatives in America by locating the underlying features of the definition of kinship--nature vs. law, substance vs. code. One of the most significant features of American Kinship, then, is the explicit development of a theory of culture on which the analysis is based, a theory that has since proved valuable in the analysis of other cultures. For this Phoenix edition, Schneider has written a substantial new chapter, responding to his critics and recounting the charges in his thought since the book was first published in 1968.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_a Culture & institutions _bKinship
700			_aDavid Murray Schneider
942			_cBOOK
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