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The Metamorphoses of Kinship - Softcover

Godelier, Maurice

 
9781788736626: The Metamorphoses of Kinship
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ISBN 10: 1788736621 ISBN 13: 9781788736626
Verlag: Verso Books, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux.

In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualizes these developments, surveying the accumulated experience of humanity with regard to such phenomena as the organization of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the evolution of Western conjugal and familial traditions from their roots in the nineteenth century to the present. The conclusion he draws is that it is never the case that a man and a woman are sufficient on their own to raise a child, and nowhere are relations of kinship or the family the keystone of society.

Godelier argues that the changes of the last thirty years do not herald the disappearance or death agony of kinship, but rather its remarkable metamorphosis—one that, ironically, is bringing us closer to the “traditional” societies studied by ethnologists.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Maurice Godelier is a world-renowned anthropologist. Among the many honors he has received are the CNRS Gold Medal and the Alexander von Humboldt prize. His major works include The Making of Great Men, The Metamorphoses of Kinship, The Enigma of the Gift, In and Out of the West, and, more recently, Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1788736621
ISBN 13 
9781788736626
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
638
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