{"product_id":"kinship-and-family-isbn-9780631229988","title":"Kinship and Family","description":"The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, \u003ci\u003eKinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on the editors’ complementary areas of expertise to offer readers a single-volume survey of the most important and critical work on kinship.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes extensive discussion and analysis of the selections that contextualizes them within theoretical debates.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface. \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 \"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 \u003c!--end--\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRobert Parkin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. His books include \u003ci\u003eKinship: An Introduction to Basic Concepts\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1997), \u003ci\u003ePerilous Transactions and other Papers in Indian and General Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), and \u003ci\u003eLouis Dumont and Hierarchical\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOpposition\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLinda Stone\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eIllness Beliefs and Feeding the Dead in Hindu Nepal\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eKinship and Gender: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2nd edition, 2000). 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