Kinship in Bali
- Title
- Kinship in Bali
- Original language
- English
- Author(s)
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- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN
- 9780226285160
- Publication date
- 1975
- Subjects
- anthropology
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Description(s)
This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz’s findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.
Review(s)
“A difficulty in the study of Balinese society is the complex variation between regions and even villages – perhaps, in part, as a consequence of the island’s extreme Balkanization in the past. The eminent authors of this monograph pay close attention to this as they develop, and at points modify, their analysis from previous works…. “ Full review at https://www.jstor.org/stable/615880?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents by Mark Hobart.
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