The Cultural Analysis of Kinship Judith Opert Sandler Great Basin

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the authors discuss the importance of actively engaging all students - including those with a history of low achievement - in higher levels of thinking

The Cultural Analysis of Kinship Judith Opert Sandler Great BasinIn the mid 1970s, David M. Schneider rocked the anthropological world with his announcement that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This volume provides a critical assessment of Schneider's ideas, focusing particularly on his contributions to kinship studies and the implications of his work for cultural relativism. Schneider's deconstruction of kinship as a cultural system sounded the death knell for a certain kind of kinship