Kinship and Family
An Anthropological Reader
Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
1. Edition November 2003
496 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
General Introduction.
Part I: Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance:
Robert Parkin.
1. Descent and Marriage.
2. Terminology and Affinal Alliance.
Part II: Kinship as Culture, Process and Agency: Linda
Stone.
3. The Demise and Revival of Kinship.
4. Contemporary Directions in Kinship.
Glossary.
Index
Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. His books include
Kinship: An Introduction to Basic Concepts (Blackwell,
1997), Perilous Transactions and other Papers in Indian and
General Anthropology (2001), and Louis Dumont and
Hierarchical Opposition (2002).
Linda Stone is Professor of Anthropology at Washington
State University. Her publications include Illness Beliefs and
Feeding the Dead in Hindu Nepal (1989) and Kinship and
Gender: An Introduction (2nd edition, 2000). She is also editor
of New Directions in Anthropological Kinship (2001) and
co-author of Gender and Culture in America (2nd edition,
2001).