{"product_id":"kinship-and-family-9780631229995","title":"Kinship and Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Descent and Marriage:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Robert Parkin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnilateral descent groups: Robert H. Lowie (deceased 1957, formerly of University of California, Berkeley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nuer of the southern Sudan: E. E. Evans-Pritchard (deceased 1973; formerly of Oxford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLineage Theory: a brief retrospect: Adam Kuper (Brunel).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican models in the New Guinea Highlands: J. A. Barnes (formally of The Australian National University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Amerindianization of Descent and Affinity: Peter Rivière (Oxford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia: Jack Goody (Cambridge).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Terminology and Affinal Alliance:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Robert Parkin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKinship and Social Organization, Lecture One: W. H. R. Rivers (deceased, formerly of Cambridge ).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology: Claude Lévi-Strauss (Emeritus, College de France).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category ‘tabu’: Edmund Leach (deceased 1989, formerly of Cambridge).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage: Louis Dumont (George Mason University, DC).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrescription, Preference and Practice: Marriage Patterns Among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India: Anthony Good (University of Edinburgh).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysis of Purum Affinal Alliance: Rodney Needham (formally of Oxford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship: N. J. Allen (Oxford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Kinship as Culture, Process and Agency:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Demise and Revival of Kinship:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Linda Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is Kinship All About?: David M. Schneider (deceased 1995, formerly of the University of Chicago).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship: Silvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier (Stanford University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship: Harold W. Scheffler (Yale University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eContemporary Directions in Kinship:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Linda Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurrogate Motherhood and American Kinship: Helena Ragoné (Independent Scholar).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEggs and Wombs: The Origins of Jewishness: Susan Martha Kahn (Brandeis University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender, Genetics and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship: Corinne P. Hayden (University of California, Berkeley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHas the World Turned? Kinship in the Contemporary American Soap Opera: Linda Stone (Washington State University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKinship, Gender and Mode of Production in Post-Mao China: Variations in Two Villages: Hua Han (Independent Scholar).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimate Kin and Human Kinship: Robin Fox (Rutgers University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKinship 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).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403450982743,"sku":"9780631229995","price":41.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631229995.jpg?v=1730483509","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kinship-and-family-9780631229995","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}