Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader

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