Kinship and Family An Anthropological Reader

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, L_vi-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.

Robert Parkin is a Lecturer at the Institute of Social and 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).

Preface

viii

Acknowledgments

xi

General Introduction Robert Parkin with Linda Stone

1

(24)

Part I Kinship as social Structure: Descent and Alliance

25

(212)

Section 1 Descent and Marriage

27

(92)

Introduction Robert Parkin

29

(14)

1 Unilateral Descent Groups

43

(21)

Robert H. Lowie

2 The Nuer of the southern Sudan

64

(15)

E.E. Evans-Pritchard

3 Lineage Theory: A Critical Retrospect

79

(18)

Adam Kuper

4 African Models in the New Guinea Highlands

97

(7)

J.A. Barnes

5 The Amerindianization of Descent and Affinity

104

(6)

Peter Rivière

6 Inheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia

110

(9)

Jack Goody

Section 2 Terminology and Affinal Alliance

119

(118)

Introduction Robert Parkin

121

(15)

7 Kinship and Social Organization

136

(9)

W.H.R. Rivers

8 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology

145

(13)

Claude Lévi-Strauss

9 Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category 'Tabu'

158

(18)

Edmund Leach

10 The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage

176

(11)

Louis Dumont

11 Prescription, Preference and Practice: Marriage Patterns among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India

187

(18)

Anthony Good

12 Analysis of Purum Affinal Alliance

205

(16)

Rodney Needham

13 Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship

221

(18)

N.J. Allen

Part II Kinship as Culture, Process, and Agency

237

(219)

Section 1 The Demise and Revival of Kinship

239

(90)

Introduction Linda Stone

241

(16)

14 What Is Kinship All About?

257

(18)

David M. Schneider

15 Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship

275

(19)

Sylvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier

16 Sexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship

294

(15)

Harold W. Scheffler

17 The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi

309

(20)

Janet Carsten

Section 2 Contemporary Directions in Kinship

329

(127)

Introduction Linda Stone

331

(11)

18 Surrogate Motherhood and American Kinship

342

(20)

Helena Ragoné

19 Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of Jewishness

362

(16)

Susan Martha Kahn

20 Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship

378

(17)

Corinne P. Hayden

21 Has the World Turned? Kinship and Family in the Contemporary American Soap Opera

395

(13)

Linda Stone

22 Kinship, Gender, and Mode of Production in Post-Mao China: Variations in Two Northern Villages

408

(16)

Hua Han

23 Primate Kin and Human Kinship

424

(14)

Robin Fox

24 Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother's Brother Controversy Reconsidered

438

(18)

Maurice Bloch and Dan Sperber

Glossary

456

(5)

Index

461

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