The Cultural Analysis of Kinship
Feinberg, Richard / Ottenheimer, Martin
In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider rocked the anthropological world with his announcement that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This volume provides a critical assessment of Schneider's ideas, focusing particularly on his contributions to kinship studies and the implications of his work for cultural relativism.Schneider's deconstruction of kinship as a cultural system sounded the death knell for a certain kind of kins...