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This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Exchange --- Kinship --- Social networks --- Social sciences --- Echange (Economie politique) --- Parenté --- Réseaux sociaux --- Sciences sociales --- Cross-cultural studies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Network analysis. --- Etudes transculturelles --- Analyse de réseau --- Parenté --- Réseaux sociaux --- Analyse de réseau --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Network analysis (Social sciences) --- SNA (Social network analysis) --- Social network analysis --- System analysis --- Commerce --- Economic anthropology --- Economics --- Supply and demand --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Methodology