Kinship and Family
An Anthropological Reader
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Edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone
Blackwell Publishers
Due/Published
December 2003, 496 pages,
paper
ISBN
063122999x
Drawing on their complementary areas of expertise, Parkin and Stone have produced a most comprehensive reader on kinship. Kinship and Family is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day: from the classic works of Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, to the contemporary debates on such issues as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship. "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 Cambridge Contents Preface 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 LŽvi-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 RagonŽ (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
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