Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice

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Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice is written by Bernhard Jussen and published by University of Delaware Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0874136326 (ISBN 10) and 9780874136326 (ISBN 13).

"This book deals with kinship in the early Middle Ages. Most scholars agree in theory that kinship is not a biological fact but a universally deployable system for structuring social relations. In empirical practice, however, research on kinship has focused almost exclusively on descent and alliance. This book addresses kinship beyond these concepts. It is a study of godparenthood and adoption in Frankish society at the time when Roman adoption was disappearing and godparenthood was being invented as a social tool."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved