Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience
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- Synopsis
- Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range from the purely abstract to the bricks and mortar of college fraternities and sororities. Family Beyond Family observes and examines the principles and purposes of such fabricated connections.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781805397991
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781805397984
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 12/05/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Parker Shipton and James P. Ito-Adler
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- James P. Ito-Adler
- Edited by:
- Parker Shipton