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By Gonçalo D. Santos,Gonçalo D. Santos,Susanne Brandtstadter

ISBN-10: 0415456975

ISBN-13: 9780415456975

ISBN-10: 0415690080

ISBN-13: 9780415690089

The essays during this quantity current modern anthropological views on chinese language kinship, its historic complexity and its glossy metamorphoses. the gathering attracts specific awareness to the reverberations of bigger socio-cultural and politico-economic tactics within the formation of sociality, intimate family members, family members histories, reproductive ideas and gender kinfolk – and vice-versa.



Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fabric from the overdue imperial interval and from modern Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China, from northern and southern areas in addition to from rural and concrete settings, the volume provides special insights into the old and spatial diversities of the chinese language kinship event. This emphasis on range demanding situations the vintage ‘lineage paradigm’ of chinese language kinship and establishes a discussion with modern anthropological debates approximately human kinship reflecting at the emergence of appreciably new family members formations within the Euro-American context.



Chinese Kinship may be of curiosity to anthropologists and sinologists, as to historians and social scientists in general.

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