Kinship and Family An Anthropological Reader

by Parkin, David; Stone, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780631229988
• ISBN10: 0631229981
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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