This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of kinship system. Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.
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