Kinship and family: an anthropological reader
Parkin, Robert
Kinship and family: an anthropological reader - USA Blackwell Publishing 2004 - xiii, 479 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index
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, Lévi-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.
9780631229995
Texual
Family
Kinship
Marriage
Kinship and family: an anthropological reader - USA Blackwell Publishing 2004 - xiii, 479 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index
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, Lévi-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.
9780631229995
Texual
Family
Kinship
Marriage