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Part I: network of relationships. – Part II: life cycles. – Part III. Conclusions.

"This book is the third in the series of integrates studies on Filipino society and culture. The other four are: Filipino Prehistory, Volume I, Filipino Indigenous Ethnic Communities, Volume II, Filipino Value System, Volume Iv, and Filipino World View, Volume V.
The purpose of the series is to highlight the basic features of commonly shared patterns of culture and social institutions among the different lowland Filipino ethnolinguistic groups.
The present volume is about the Filipino traditional kinship and family organization. It addresses the following questions:
- is it possible to speak of a generalized Filipino kinship and family organization?
- or, is it too risky, as most critics advise us, to make such generalization because of the geographical distances and dialect differences among the ethnolinguistic groups constituting the Filipino social system?
this study documents the stand we have on these questions."