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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 | |