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is not to be confused with actual patterns of action, with what people can be observed to be actually doing... nor should culture be confused with patterns for action.

Culture,' he argues, 'is not to be confused with actual patterns of action, with what people can be observed to be actually doing... nor should culture be confused with patterns for action (which I call norms and distinguish sharply from culture.)' (emphasis in original, Schneider american kinship129). )

is that kind of bond where cultural and social considerations are more salient structural devices than a 'rhetoric of 'blood' ties.

the Kinship Project, a study supported by the National Science Foundation that looked at how middle-class families in the United States and Great Britain respond to their kinship relations. His findings challenged the common-sense assumption that kinship in Anglo-American cultures is primarily about recognizing biological relatedness. While a rhetoric of 'blood' ties is an important conceptual structuring device in US and British kinship systems, cultural and social considerations are more important.' (wiki)'a system of symbols and meanings'

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