Description: In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective.
Brief description: Joan Bestard-Camps is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, at the University of Barcelona.
Review Quotes:
"...[a] finely crafted study...suitable for advanced undergraduates and up." --Choice
"...this is surely a seminal work in the canon of Spanish ethnography." --British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, The Caribbean, Portugal and Spain "... an excellent study, sharply focussed and rich in detail. Stimulating reading for anthropologists, demographers and historians." --Sociologia Ruralis