Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience

by Ito-Adler, James P.
ISBN: 9781805397984
Availability:
null

Available Offers

Pickup at {0} Out of stock at {0} Check other stores
FREE
Ship to Me
$3.99

Overview

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

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Ito-Adler, James P.
  • ISBN: 9781805397984
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 302
  • Publication Year: 2024
Language: English