Kinship and gender
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Linda Stone.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780813343020
Subjects: Kinship; Sex role; Human reproduction; Matrilineal kinship; Patrilineal kinship
Description: "Students of anthropology are expected to acquire a sound knowledge of kinship. When taught without the link to gender, the basics of anthropological kinship can be boring and tedious. Kinship and Gender, Third Edition successfully links the two concepts, bringing the topics alive for students and demonstrating their relevancy to the students' own lives and understanding of other cultures. This third edition features a new section on kinship theory. Two new case studies are also included that address more recent and novel forms of kinship and family in Euro-American families and new reproductive technologies that challenge traditional notions of kinship in societies all over the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender, reproduction, and kinship; title: The evolution of kinship and gender; title: The power of patrilines; title: Through the mother; title: Double, bilateral, and cognatic descent; title: Marriage; title: A history of Euro-American kinship and gender; title: Kinship, gender, and the new reproductive technologies.