Author: NUTINI, H.G. & BELL, B.
Title: Ritual Kinship.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980.. The Structure and Historical Development of the Compadrazgo System in Rural Tlaxcala. 1st Edition 494 p., tables, glossary, references, index, bibliogr.. SOFTCOVER: (orig. decor. wrpprs. VERY GOOD) ¶ Drawing on their intensive field research and using an integrated synchronic--diachronic approach, the authors clarify and expand several dimensions of the compadrazgo system; formulate a theory to account for its structural, functional, ideological, and historical manifestations; and establish its implications for comparitive compadrazgo studies.

Keywords: Latin America South America Mexico Ethnography Anthropology South American Indians Compadrazgo Ritual kinship


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