TY - BOOK AU - Parkin, Robert AU - Stone, Linda TI - Kinship and family: an anthropological reader SN - 9780631229995 PY - 2004/// CY - USA PB - Blackwell Publishing KW - Family KW - Kinship KW - Marriage N2 - 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 ER -