This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.
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Balinese kinship customs and practices are, on first encounter, puzzlingly irregular and contradictory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
royal dadia, gentry dadia, houseyard temple, commoner dadia, dadia temple, dadia membership, dadia organization, kinship differentiation, klian subak, klian banjar, desa adat, gentry descent, hamlet council, commoner wives, genealogical amnesia, substitute heir, sinking status, balé agung, kinship symbols, pura puseh, commoner woman, irrigation society, village endogamy, paramount lord, rice barn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dewa Manggis, Pasek Gelgel, Dewa Agung, Kahyangan Tiga, Kebun Tubuh, Den Pasar, Pan Pugeg, Den Bantas, Gunung Agung, Pura Balai Agung, Jero Beng, Kak Loh, Pan Loh, Puri Kaleran, Gusti Ngurah New!
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Balinese kinship customs and practices are, on first encounter, puzzlingly irregular and contradictory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
royal dadia, gentry dadia, houseyard temple, commoner dadia, dadia temple, dadia membership, dadia organization, kinship differentiation, klian subak, klian banjar, desa adat, gentry descent, hamlet council, commoner wives, genealogical amnesia, substitute heir, sinking status, balé agung, kinship symbols, pura puseh, commoner woman, irrigation society, village endogamy, paramount lord, rice barn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dewa Manggis, Pasek Gelgel, Dewa Agung, Kahyangan Tiga, Kebun Tubuh, Den Pasar, Pan Pugeg, Den Bantas, Gunung Agung, Pura Balai Agung, Jero Beng, Kak Loh, Pan Loh, Puri Kaleran, Gusti Ngurah New!
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- The Interpretation Of Cultures (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Island of Bali by Miguel Covarrubias in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Sociology of Gender and the Family: The Family Herds: A Study of Two Pastoral Tribes in East Africa, The Jie and T (International Library of Sociology) by P.H. Gulliver in Back Matter
- Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard in Back Matter
- Villages in Indonesia by Koentjaraningrat in Back Matter
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- The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali (Asia East By South Series) by Geoffrey B. Robinson on 4 pages
- Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 by David Warren Sabean on page 8, page 28, and Back Matter
- Culture: The Anthropologists' Account by Adam Kuper on page 148, and Back Matter
- Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research by Harold Kincaid on page 208, and Back Matter
- Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century by Pamela R. Frese in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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