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Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience

Current price: $135.00
Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience
Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience

Barnes and Noble

Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience

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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. observes and examines the principles and purposes of such fabricated connections.

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