Kinship

An Introduction to the Basic Concepts

David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes)

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English

Wiley-Blackwell
14 April 1997

Sociology: family & relationships; Social & cultural anthropology

This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.

By: David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9780631203599
ISBN 10: 0631203591
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 14 April 1997
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Parkin trained at the University of Oxford, where he took his doctorate for a thesis on kinship in tribal India, which was later published by Oxford University Press as The Munda of Central India. He has written extensively on kinship, both theoretically and ethnographically. He is the author of a study of the life and work of the early French sociologist of religion, Robert Hertz, The Dark Side of Humanity (1996), and of A Guide to Austroasiatic Speakers and their Languages (1991). He is currently teaching at the Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes, having previously taught at the Free University of Berlin and the Jagiellonian University, Cracow.