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Schneider's deconstruction of kinship as a cultural system sounded the death knell for a certain kind of kinship study. Premium Membership is now 50% off! The American anthropologist David Schneider’s American Kinship (1968) is generally acknowledged as one of the first important anthropological studies of kinship in a 20th-century industrialized setting. Rather than taking the ideological basis of kinship for granted or assuming it to be of less importance than strategic interests related to status…. ... One size does not ‘fit’ all. Rather than taking the ideological basis of kinship for granted or assuming it to be of less importance than strategic interests related to status… <<
As Schneider recapitulates (1987:97) "biological relationship was treated as the reference point, the fixed position against which all cultural aspects take their meaning". There are also social kinships, where individuals not connected by birth or marriage may still have a bond of kinship, he said. In kinship: Culturalist accounts. %����
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Social: Schneider argued that not all kinship derives from blood (consanguineal) or marriage (affinal).
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That the relationship is neither . If we are correct in this assumption, if every society does have some set of Black Friday Sale! Schneider’s comments contrast strongly with Ward Goodenough’s observation made about the same time: We anthropologists have assumed that kinship is universal, that all societies have kinship systems. �"�1�*��S����6KcD�0�a�f��!sr�;��FJ�f�J�M���9�q}Q��@µ�i��7c@�8��Jٸ�s{R:H�9��z�`H�a?�� �C8C��:��Z�#`�r�,%�u�n"��2���. countering David Schneider’s (1972) simplistic claim that the. radically different from the European cultural conception of kinship” (Schneider 1984:73), which . presumes that reproduction is the critical defining property. The American anthropologist David Schneider’s American Kinship (1968) is generally acknowledged as one of the first important anthropological studies of kinship in a 20th-century industrialized setting. https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Kinship. At the same time, it laid the groundwork for the re-emergence of kinship studies as a centerpiece of anthropological theory and practice.