Parkin, David

Kinship: an introduction to the basic concepts/ Robert Parkin - UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 1997. - xi,208p. : ill. ; 24cm.

Part I: Basic Concepts:.
1. Introductory.
2. Descent.
3. The Family and Other Kin Groupings.
4. Marriage and Sexual Relations.
5. Kinship (Relationship) Terminology.
6. Symmetric Affinal Alliance.
7. Asymmetric Affinal Alliance.
8. FZD and ZD Marriage.
9. Non--prescriptive Pseudo--systems.
10. The Meaning of Kinship.
Part II: Theories of Kinship:.
11. The Significance of Kinship in Anthropology.
12. Theories of Descent.
13. Kinship Terminology and Affinal Alliance.
14. Typologies and Terminological Change.
15. Ethnographic Examples and Further Reading.

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