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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Early Studies | |
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| The Revival of Kinship Studies | |
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| What Is Kinship? | |
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| Mobilizing Kin | |
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| Family | |
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| Marriage | |
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| The Fair Maid of Perth | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| Life Cycles | |
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| Life Cycle and Family: Basic Concepts | |
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| Marking Birth and Making Identities | |
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| Names and Namings | |
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| Maturation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| Concepts in Reproduction | |
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| Birth and Social Reproduction | |
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| Trobriand Concepts of Reproduction | |
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| Ideas of Reproduction and Social Structure | |
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| Legal Contexts | |
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| New Reproductive Technology | |
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| Adoption | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Groups | |
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| The Scottish Clan: A Complex Case | |
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| Cognatic Groups among the Duna | |
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| Clanship and Exchange: Other Cases from the New Guinea Highlands | |
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| Self, Group, and Personhood | |
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| Other Cases, Other Types | |
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| Matriliny among the Tolai | |
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| Other Cases, Other Types | |
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| Bilateral Kindreds among the Iban | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reference | |
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| Structures of Marriage | |
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| Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea | |
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| Huaulu, Eastern Indonesia | |
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| The Business of Marriage in Telefomin | |
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| Ruth Craig's Early Account of Telefomin Marriage | |
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| Exchange Relations and Intergenerational Continuity: Wiru and Duna | |
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| The Category of �Polyandry� | |
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| Marriage, Filiation, and Descent: The Na People of China | |
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| Cousin Marriage Systems | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reference | |
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| Euro-American Kinship: Concepts and History | |
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| �The Family� | |
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| Historical Factors: Households, Property, and Inheritance | |
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| Influences of the Church | |
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| Contemporary Cases: David Schneider on American Kinship | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reference | |
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| Euro-American Kinship: A Diversity of Examples | |
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| Appalachian Valley, United States | |
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| Newcastle, Australia | |
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| Tory Island, Ireland | |
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| The Sarakatsani, Greece | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reference | |
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| Conclusions: Issues of Change and Continuity | |
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| Robin Fox: Reproduction and Succession | |
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| A Continuum of Themes: From Reproductive Technology to Lesbian Motherhood | |
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| A. F. Robertson: Beyond the Family | |
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| Reissuing and Reframing Definitions: Ideology and Practice | |
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| Relatives and Relatedness: Substance as a Key | |
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| Filiation, Affiliation, Sociality: Reworking Pacific Models of Kinship | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Kinship Terminologies | |
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| Incest and Exogamy: Sex Is Good to Prohibit | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |