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on the dialectics of practice and classification
List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I. Terminological change -- Kinship as classification : towards a paradigm of change -- Terminology and alliance in India : tribal systems and the North-South problem -- From Tetradic society to dispersed alliance -- Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage? -- Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia -- Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe : trajectories of change -- Part II. Crow-Omaha -- On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologies -- Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problem -- The evolution of kinship terminologies : non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in Indonesia -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix -- Publications on kinship by Robert Parkin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.