Culture Creation and Procreation

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Culture Creation and Procreation

Author	: Monika Böck
File Size	: 51,9 Mb
Publisher	: Berghahn Books
Language	: English
Release Date	: 26 April 2024
ISBN	: 9781571819123
Pages	: 394 pages

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Culture Creation and Procreation by Monika Böck Book PDF Summary

These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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