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Book SynopsisTraces the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s onwards. This book presents classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship.
Trade Review"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 CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface.
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
