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Kinship : Topics in Social Science
1,827 words, approx. 6 pages ‘Kinship is the central discipline of anthropology,’ one expert remarked in the mid-1960s. ‘It is to anthropology what the nude is to art’ (Fox 1967:10). This comment was true then, but kinship studies have since become rather...
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Systems Of Descent : Social and Cultural Anthropology
1,666 words, approx. 6 pages Descent has been classified according to the way in which relatedness is traced through paternal and maternal ancestors. Patrilineal descent refers to common kinship traced consistently through male ancestors; the father, father’s father,...
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Kinship Information
472 words, approx. 2 pages
 Kinship is one of the most basic principles for organizing individuals into social groups, roles, and categories. It was originally thought to reflect biological descent, a view that was challenged by David M. Schneider in his work on symbolic kinship...



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Kinship Quotes
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 Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! . . ....




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 Anthropological Quarterly
After Kinship
04/01/2007: 1,108 words, approx. 4 pages Janet Carsten, After Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 230 pp. In 1995, in Nottinghamshire, England, Diane Blood is involved in a dispute with British regulatory agencies and the courts over her efforts to conceive a child with sperm obtained from her dying...
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 Anthropological Quarterly
Sumptuary Kinship
04/01/2007: 11,182 words, approx. 37 pages Abstract The essay pursues three ends. Two are theoretical. The first of these seeks to clarify and elaborate the consequences of approaching kinship as a distinctive system of subjectivation that yields an equally distinctive ethical domain. The second pursues the characterization of such...
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Fire deaths raise caste system questions
1/2/2008: 587 words, approx. 2 pages A blaze that killed a couple and their 3-year-old son in their suburban Chicago apartment may have had its point of origin on the other side of the world, in India's ancient Hindu caste system.Prosecutors say Subhash Chander, an immigrant from India, doused the place...
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Idaho gov to pay for jet ride to Arizona
1/5/2007: 335 words, approx. 1 pages Idaho's new governor has asked to be billed for the private flight he and his wife took to watch Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl, but says he was only offered the trip because of family connections.Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and first lady Lori Otter...


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