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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance | |
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| Descent and Marriage | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Unilateral Descent Groups | |
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| The Nuer of the Southern Sudan | |
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| Lineage Theory: A Critical Retrospect | |
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| African Models in the New Guinea Highlands | |
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| The Amerindianization of Descent and Affinity | |
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| Inheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia | |
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| Terminology and Affinal Alliance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Kinship and Social Organization | |
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| Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology | |
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| Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category 'Tabu' | |
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| The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage | |
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| Prescription, Preference and Practice: Marriage Patterns among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India | |
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| Analysis of Purum Affinal Alliance | |
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| Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship | |
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| Kinship as Culture, Process, and Agency | |
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| The Demise and Revival of Kinship | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Kinship All About? | |
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| Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship | |
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| Sexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship | |
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| The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi | |
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| Contemporary Directions in Kinship | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Surrogate Motherhood and American Kinship | |
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| Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of Jewishness | |
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| Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship | |
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| Has the World Turned? Kinship and Family in the Contemporary American Soap Opera | |
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| Kinship, Gender, and Mode of Production in Post-Mao China: Variations in Two Northern Villages | |
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| Primate Kin and Human Kinship | |
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| Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother's Brother Controversy Reconsidered | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |