Příbuzenství v antropologické perspektivě – Holý Ladislav (2025)

On the pages of Kinship from an Anthropological Perspective, Ladislav Holý has managed to succinctly, clearly, and attractively summarize the anthropological discourse on the study of kinship and present it as one of the classic yet still significant areas of anthropology. The book will serve both students and advanced researchers, as it presents traditional themes in the anthropology of kinship while also addressing theoretical questions concerning the very nature of kinship. Ladislav Holý, who began his academic career in Prague and moved to Great Britain through Africanist research, where he established the Department of Anthropology at St Andrews, also utilizes data from his field research in Sudan and Zambia in the book. The reader is introduced to the study of kinship through concepts such as descent lines, postmarital residence, plural marriage, and family households. However, Holý also discusses the possibilities of intercultural studies of kinship and very clearly shows why the notion of kinship as referring to a model of biological reproduction is hardly sustainable from the perspective of modern social anthropology.