1. Introductory -- 2. Kinship and the lineage system -- 3. The homestead and the joint family -- 4. Husband and wife in the structure of the family -- 5. Parents and children in the framework of the lineage -- 6. The moral basis of the relationship of parent and child -- 7. The genetic development of parent-child relationships -- 8. Tensions in the parent-child relatonship -- 9. Grandparents and grandchildren -- 10. Siblings in the social structure -- 11. The web of extra-clan kinship -- 12. The functions of kinship