Family Beyond Family

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Family Beyond Family is written by James P Ito-Adler and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1805397982 (ISBN 10) and 9781805397984 (ISBN 13).

Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range from the purely abstract to the bricks and mortar of college fraternities and sororities. Family Beyond Family observes and examines the principles and purposes of such fabricated connections.