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By Hildred Geertz, Clifford Geertz, Hidred Geertz

This paintings constitutes the 1st book-length exam of Balinese kinship in English and a huge theoretical research of the imperative ethnographic thought of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings problem the existing anthropological thought of a kinship method as an independent set of institutionalized social relationships. Their examine in Bali means that kinship can't be studied in isolation yet needs to be perceived as a symbolic subsystem ruled via rules and ideology certain to every culture.

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