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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 | |