Kinship and Culture Tapa dura - 1971

Fine hardcover, no DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. 8vo, 510 pp; index, biblio.

New York, NY: Aldine, 1971. 1st ed. Hardcover. Used: Very Good. Very good, DJ sl. Torn, 510pp.

Aldine Pub Co, 1971. Hardcover. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / lightly worn, sunned spine dust jacket in bro-dart cover. 510 pp.

Aldine Pub. Co. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

viii+510 pages with tables, charts, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4' x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. At one time Francis L.K. Hsu put forth a hypothesis on kinship that proposed a functional relationship between particular kinship systems and behavior patterns in particular cultural contexts. The controversy provoked among cultural anthropologists by this hypothesis is reflected in this book, which points the way toward more fruitful investigations of kinship in cultural and psychological anthropology. Hsu's hypothesis offers an alternative to the study of kinship as a mathematical game and to the treatment of fragmentary aspects of child-rearing practices as major causal factors in culture. Considering the kinship system as the psychological factory of culture, Hsu's aim is to discover the crucial forces in each system that shape the interpersonal orientation of the individual, which forms the… Leer más

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Aldine Publishing Company, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 1st Printing Last name on front end page, no other marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding tight and sound. Publisher's bump in cloth on front cover. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. 510 pp H

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