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Kinship and Family
An Anthropological Reader
David Parkin (Edited by), R Parkin (Author), Linda Stone (Edited by)
9780631229988, Wiley
Hardback, published 17 November 2003
496 pages
25.4 x 17.5 x 4 cm, 1.007 kg
"One looks to a Reader to be authoritative: this is also a highly imaginative collection. Nuanced as well as balanced, the editors’ compilations bring out the best not just in the study of kinship but in anthropology. A tonic for old hands and new hands alike." Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge
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.
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. Kinship and Social Organization, Lecture One: W. H. R. Rivers (deceased, formerly of Cambridge ). Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology: Claude Lévi-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 Ragoné (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
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
