Vital relations modernity persistent (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organises simpler, ''traditional'', pre-state societies but not complex, ''modern'', state societies. And they have been unanimous in their presupposition that within modern state-based societies kinship has been relegated to the domestic domain, has lost its economic and political functions, and has become secularised and rationalised. Vital Relations challenges these presuppositions.…