Reconnecting State and Kinship
, "Reconnecting State and Kinship"
English | ISBN: 0812249518 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0812249518 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Within the social sciences, kinship and statehood are often seen as two distinct modes of social organization, sometimes conceived of as following each other in a temporal line and sometimes as operating on different scales. Kinship is traditionally associated with small-scale communities in stateless societies. The state, meanwhile, is viewed as a development away from kinship as political order toward rational, impersonal, and functional forms of rule. In recent decades, theoretical and empirical scholarship has challenged these notions, but the underlying presumption of a deep-rooted opposition between kinship and the (modern) state has remained surprisingly stable.
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