Kinship, Networks, and Exchange

ISBN-13: 9780521084741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 356 str.

Thomas Schweizer; Douglas R. White

Opis

The intent of this collection of original essays is to revitalize the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. The collection combines studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources. This book marks the emergence of a new era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.