Kinship in Bali

By Hildred Geertz and Clifford Geertz

Book Overview

This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226285154
• ISBN13: 9780226285153
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.