| Description |
xiii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 4 |
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Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 4
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface. -- General Introduction. -- Part I: Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance:. -- 1. Descent and Marriage:. -- Introduction: Robert Parkin. -- Unilateral descent groups: Robert H. Lowie (deceased 1957, formerly of University of California, Berkeley). -- The Nuer of the southern Sudan: E. E. Evans-Pritchard (deceased 1973; formerly of Oxford). -- Lineage Theory: a brief retrospect: Adam Kuper (Brunel). -- African models in the New Guinea Highlands: J. A. Barnes (formally of The Australian National University). -- The Amerindianization of Descent and Affinity: Peter Rivir̈e (Oxford). -- Inheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia: Jack Goody (Cambridge). -- 2. Terminology and Affinal Alliance:. -- Introduction: Robert Parkin. -- Kinship and Social Organization, Lecture One: W. H. R. Rivers (deceased, formerly of Cambridge ). -- Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology: Claude Le;vi-Strauss (Emeritus, College de France). -- Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category ?tabu?: Edmund Leach (deceased 1989, formerly of Cambridge). -- The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage: Louis Dumont (George Mason University, DC). -- Prescription, Preference and Practice: Marriage Patterns Among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India: Anthony Good (University of Edinburgh). -- Analysis of Purum Affinal Alliance: Rodney Needham (formally of Oxford). -- Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship: N. J. Allen (Oxford). -- Part II: Kinship as Culture, Process and Agency:. -- 3. The Demise and Revival of Kinship:. -- Introduction: Linda Stone. -- What is Kinship All About?: David M. Schneider (deceased 1995, formerly of the University of Chicago). -- Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship: Silvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier (Stanford University). -- Sexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship: Harold W. Scheffler (Yale University). -- The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). -- 4. Contemporary Directions in Kinship:. -- Introduction: Linda Stone. -- Surrogate Motherhood and American Kinship: Helena Ragone; (Independent Scholar). -- Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of Jewishness: Susan Martha Kahn (Brandeis University). -- Gender, Genetics and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship: Corinne P. Hayden (University of California, Berkeley). -- Has the World Turned? Kinship in the Contemporary American Soap Opera: Linda Stone (Washington State University). -- Kinship, Gender and Mode of Production in Post-Mao China: Variations in Two Villages: Hua Han (Independent Scholar). -- Primate Kin and Human Kinship: Robin Fox (Rutgers University). -- Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother?s Brother Controversy Reconsidered: Maurice Bloch and Dan Sperber (London School of Economics and Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Paris). -- Glossary. -- Index |
| Summary |
Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Families.
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Kinship.
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Family.
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Kinship
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| Author |
Stone, Linda, 1947-
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Parkin, Robert, 1950-
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| LC no. |
2003056028 |
| ISBN |
0631229981 hardback alkaline paper |
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063122999X paperback alkaline paper |
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