Robert Parkin / Linda Stone (eds.)

Kinship and Family

An Anthropological Reader
Herausgeber: Parkin, David; Stone, Linda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on their complementary areas of expertise, Parkin and Stone have produced 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: from the classic works of Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, to the electrifying contemporary debates on such issues as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship. By bringing together for the first time such an array of articles on kinship and its relation to social organization, this volume offers students and professionals a survey of the most important and critical work in the field. Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader includes extensive discussion and analysis of the selections that contextualizes them within theoretical debates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 179mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1007g
• ISBN-13: 9780631229988
• ISBN-10: 0631229981
• Artikelnr.: 22362138

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

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: LindaStone.

3. The Demise and Revival of Kinship.

4. Contemporary Directions in Kinship.

Glossary.

Index

Rezensionen

"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