Family Beyond Family

The Varieties of Kinship Experience

Parker Shipton editor James P Ito-Adler editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:1st Dec '24

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Family Beyond Family cover

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 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.

ISBN: 9781805397984

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302 pages