What Kinship Is-And Is Not
by Marshall Sahlins
Call Number: FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY General Collection -- GN487.S25 2013
ISBN: 0226925129
Publication Date: 2013-01-25
In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on a breadth of theory and a range of ethnographic examples to form an acute definition of kinship, what he calls the "mutuality of being."