Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781805397984)

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.

Author: James P. Ito-Adler
ISBN-10: 1805397982
ISBN-13: 9781805397984
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2024
Pages: 302
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d