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Kinship in Bali - Geertz, Hildred, and Geertz, Clifford
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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 ...

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Kinship in Bali 1978, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226285160

Revised edition

Hardcover

Kinship in Bali 1975, University of Chicago Press, Chicago

ISBN-13: 9780226285153

Hardcover