>In changing bloodlines, they rely on the normative nature of kinship and the
>ability to emphasise different ancestral connections according to the
>situation at hand. Such situations are very common in the ethnographic data
>of tribal societies
>
>Cheers
>
>John
I'd add that unlike RW kinship there is no DNA to be passed down. Adoption
rites, marriage ceremonies are probably more than symbolic weldings of
bloodlines.
Thom