Culture, Creation, and Procreation
Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice
As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about consanguinity, genealogical relations, and genetic connections. Advocates of cultural constructivism have taken issue with a concept that puts so much stress on heredity as being severely biased by western ideas of kinship. Ethnosociologists in particular developed alternative systems using indigenous categories. This symbolic approach has, however, been rejected by some scholars as plagued by the problems of the analytical separation of ide…
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Weitere Autoren: Rao, Aparna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57181-912-3
- EAN: 9781571819123
- Produktnummer: 19824357
- Verlag: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.8 cm x D2.0 cm 454 g
- Gewicht: 454
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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Monika Böck is Lecturer at the Institut für Völkerkunde, University of Cologne.
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