The most comprehensive reader on kinship available,
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.
- Brings together for the first time both classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on such electrifying contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship.
- Draws on the editors’ complementary areas of expertise to offer readers a single-volume survey of the most important and critical work on kinship.
- Includes extensive discussion and analysis of the selections that contextualizes them within theoretical debates.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
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 Rivière (Oxford).
Inheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia: Jack Goody (Cambridge).
2. Terminology and Affinal Alliance:.
Introduction: Robert Parkin.
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