Kinship in Bali

Title

Kinship in Bali

Original language

Author(s)

• Clifford Geertz
• Hildred Geertz

Illustrator(s)

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISBN

9780226285160

Publication date

1975

Subjects

• anthropology

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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.

Reference: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo25832222.html

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