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- ISBN 9781805397984
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range from the purely abstract to the bricks and mortar of college fraternities and sororities. Family Beyond Family observes and examines the principles and purposes of such fabricated connections.
Parker Shipton is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Boston University. He has served as president of the Association for Africanist Anthropology. Some of his publications include The Nature of Entrustment (Yale University Press, 2007), which won the Herskovits Prize; Mortgaging the Ancestors (Yale University Press, 2009), and Credit Between Cultures (Yale University Press, 2010).
