Příbuzenství v antropologické perspektivě

In his book An Anthropological Perspective on Kinship, Ladislav Holý has managed to provide a concise, clear, and engaging summary of the anthropological discourse on kinship, presenting it as one of the traditional but still relevant areas of anthropology. The publication is a useful resource for students as well as more advanced scholars. On the one hand, it introduces traditional topics in the anthropology of kinship, on the other hand it addresses theoretical questions concerning the nature of kinship per se. In this book, Ladislav Holý, who originally began his academic career in Prague before moving to the UK through his Africanist research to establish the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, also uses data from his fieldwork in Sudan and Zambia. The reader is introduced to kinship studies through various concepts such as lineages, post-marital residences, plural marriage, and family households. Holý also discusses the possibilities of studying kinship from a cross-cultural perspective and demonstrates very clearly why kinship as a notion referring to a biological reproduction model is hardly sustainable in the eyes of modern social anthropology.