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This book examines how kinship organization and marriage patterns have responded to challenges, and suggests that the retention of core institutions of descent and exchange are the consequence of population growth, which has enabled ritual reproduction, and thereby maintained a distinct identity in relation to the surrounding majority culture.
Author: Roy Ellen
ISBN-10: 0367590581
ISBN-13: 9780367590581
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
Roy Ellen is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent. His recent books include On the Edge of the Banda Zone (2003) and Nuaulu Religious Practices (2012). He was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy in 2003, and was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute between 2007 and 2011.
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