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As noted above, while anthropologists had made the study of kinship in non-Western cultures their particular preserve, the study of modern kinship in the West was on the whole dominated by sociologists. It was assumed by many practitioners of both disciplines that kinship was far less important as a social institution in the West and that it was clearly separable from political, economic, and...