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Article: Transformations of kinship.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- September 1, 2000
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GODELIER, MAURICE, THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN & FRANKLIN E. TJON SIE FAT (eds). Transformations of kinship. xiv, 449 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Washington, London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998
Based on a conference held in Paris in 1993, this book is devoted to the exploration of the structural features of 'Dravidian', 'Iroquois', and, to a lesser extent, 'Crow-Omaha' kinship systems. 'Dravidian' (in inverted commas) refers not just to the kinship systems of those who speak Dravidian languages, but to others of similar structural type, including many in Lowland South America and Aboriginal Australia. Put simply, these are systems which are broadly like ...