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Pages: 368
Authors: Christopher H. Johnson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term developm
Brothers and Sisters
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Authors: Ann Buchanan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-09 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This edited volume presents unique insights on sibling relationships in adulthood in the early 21st century, focusing on three themes: relations beyond childhoo
Blood and Kinship
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Christopher H. Johnson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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The word “blood” awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied
Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Hans Hummer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of di
The Politics of Making Kinship
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Erdmute Alber
Categories: Political Science
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The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, publi