Kinship and family : an anthropological reader

Parkin, Robert, 1950- (Added Author). Stone, Linda, 1947- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0631229981 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN: 063122999X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 479 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance -- Section 1 Descent and Marriage -- 1 Unilateral Descent Groups / Robert H. Lowie -- 2 The Nuer of the Southern Sudan / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- 3 Lineage Theory: A Critical Retrospect / Adam Kuper -- 4 African Models in the New Guinea Highlands / J. A. Barnes -- 5 The Amerindianization of Descent and Affinity / Peter Riviere -- 6 Inheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia / Jack Goody -- Section 2 Terminology and Affinal Alliance -- 7 Kinship and Social Organization / W. H. R. Rivers -- 8 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology / Claude Levi-Strauss -- 9 Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category 'Tabu' / Edmund Leach -- 10 The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage / Louis Dumont -- 11 Prescription, Preference and Practice: Marriage Patterns among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India / Anthony Good -- 12 Analysis of Purum Affinal Alliance / Rodney Needham -- 13 Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship / N. J. Allen --