How Kinship Systems Change

<p> Using some of his landmark publications on kinship along with a new introduction chapter and conclusion Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.</p>