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Another view of Trobriand kinship categoriesessay 1965 • Lounsbury, Floyd G.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In response to Leach's rebuttal of Malinowski's 'family-centered' and 'extensionist' theory of kinship, (see 50: Leach, in this file), Lounsbury defends Malinowski in this paper, defending the older and more conventional notion about kinship and kins...