Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience by Shipton, Parker

Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience

Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These...
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Author: Parker Shipton
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Language: English
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Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience by Shipton, Parker

Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience

€296,37

Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience

€296,37
Author: Parker Shipton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range from the purely abstract to the bricks and mortar of college fraternities and sororities. Family Beyond Family observes and examines the principles and purposes of such fabricated connections.

Author: Parker Shipton
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 12/01/2024
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781805397984

About the Author

Parker Shipton is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Boston University. He has served as president of the Association for Africanist Anthropology. Some of his publications include Bitter Money (American Anthropological Association,1989), The Nature of Entrustment (Yale University Press, 2007) which won the Herskovits Prize, and Mortgaging the Ancestors: Credit between Cultures (Yale University Press, 2009).


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