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This book examines how kinship organization and marriage patterns have responded to challenges, and suggests that the retention of core institutions of descent and exchange are the consequence of population growth, which has enabled ritual reproduction, and thereby maintained a distinct identity in relation to the surrounding majority culture.

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This book examines how kinship organization and marriage patterns have responded to challenges, and suggests that the retention of core institutions of descent and exchange are the consequence of population growth, which has enabled ritual reproduction, and thereby maintained a distinct identity in relation to the surrounding majority culture.
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Autorenporträt
Roy Ellen is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent. His recent books include On the Edge of the Banda Zone (2003) and Nuaulu Religious Practices (2012). He was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy in 2003, and was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute between 2007 and 2011.