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"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"--

Kinship --- Marriage - Social aspects --- Cross-cousin marriage --- Kinship - India --- Crow Indians - Kinship --- Omaha Indians - Kinship --- Kinship. --- Marriage --- Cross-cousin marriage. --- Social aspects. --- Cousin marriage --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Anthropology (General), Sociology. --- Crow Indians --- Omaha Indians