Author: Stone, Linda ; editor:
Title: New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
Description: Lanham [MD], Rowman & Littlefield Publ. (2001). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, x,358 pp. PAPERBACK.. Cover corner crease. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents : Whatever happened to kinship studies? Reflections of a feminist anthropologist / Louise Lamphere -- Not that lineage stuff : teaching kinship into the twenty-first century / Caroline B. Brettell -- Ties that bond : the role of kinship in primate societies / Joan B. Silk -- Neoevolutionary approaches to human kinship / Barry S. Hewlett -- Schneider revisited : sharing and ratification in the construction of kinship / Kathey-Lee Galvin -- Bound by blood? New meaning of kinship and individuality in discourses of genetic counseling / Lynn Åkesson -- The threatened sperm : parenthood in the age of biomedicine / Susanne Lundin --Mischief on the margins : gender primogeniture, and cognatic descent among the Maori / Karen Sinclair -- Power, control, and the mother-in-law problem : face-offs in the American nuclear family / Allen S. Ehrlich -- Colliding/colluding identities : race, class, and gender in Jamaican family systems / Lisa M. Anderson-Levy -- Kin and gender in Classic Maya society : a case study from Yaxchilán, Mexico / Cynthia Robin --Parenting from separate households : a cultural perspective / David Jacobson, Joan H.Liem, and Robert S. Weiss -- Open adoption : extending families, exchanging facts / Judith S. Modell -- In the name of the father : theology, kinship, and charisma in an American polygynous community / William Jankowiak -- Fictive kinship in American biomedicine / Richard E. Maddy -- Going nuclear : New Zealand bureaucratic fantasies of Samoan extended families / Ilana Gershon -- Women’s organizations, the ideology

Keywords: Social Anthropology, Kinship, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnography, , , ,