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Vital Relations
Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship
Edited by Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell
Published by SAR Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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For more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organizes simpler, traditional, pre-state societies but not complex, modern, state societies. And these theories have been unanimous in their presupposition that within modern state-based societies kinship has been relegated to the domestic domain, has lost its economic and political functions, has retained no organizing force in modern political and economic structures and processes, and has become secularized and rationalized. Vital Relations challenges these notions.
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- Publisher: SAR Press (August 27, 2013)
- Length: 360 pages
- ISBN13: 9781938645013
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