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Stephen Gudeman
Relationships, Residence and the Individual [EPUB ebook]
A Rural Panamanian Community

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Representing a departure from traditional studies of social organisation, the book asserts that a kinship system is best understood as a system of concepts rather than as a set of empirical relationships. Three aspects of life in the Panamanian community of Los Boquerones are described
First published in 1976.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9781136544248 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2811438 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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