A Critique of the Study of Kinship Schneider David M.
Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely…
Specifikacia A Critique of the Study of Kinship Schneider David M.
Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at all underneath those clothes. And even when the clothes appear to be shreds and patches held together by a web of illusions.The critique uses a novel device in that the same set of ethnographic "facts" are looked at through different theories. This reveals a good deal about the different theories. By the same token, of course, this critique goes into the question of what a "fact" of "kinship" might be and how to recognize one either at home or in the field.Schneider's critique also uses
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