New Directions in Anthropological Kinship

807 Pages·2000·2.25 MB·English

by  Linda Stone

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title: New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
author: Stone, Linda
publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
isbn10 | asin: 0742501078
print isbn13: 9780742501072
ebook isbn13: 9780585384245
language: English
subject Kinship.
publication date: 2001
lcc: GN480.S83 2001eb
ddc: 306.83
subject: Kinship.
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL KINSHIP
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
KINSHIP
Linda Stone, Editor
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS , INC .
Lanham • Boulder • New York • Oxford
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Stone, Linda, 1947–
New directions in anthropological kinship / Linda Stone.
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Contents
Preface
ix
1 Introduction: Theoretical Implications of New Directions in
Anthropological Kinship 1
Linda Stone
PART ONE: Kinship in the History of Anthropology
2 Whatever Happened to Kinship Studies? Reflections of a Feminist
Anthropologist 21
Louise Lamphere
3 Not That Lineage Stuff: Teaching Kinship into the Twenty-First Century
48
Caroline B. Brettell
PART TWO: Biology and Culture in the Study of Kinship
4 Ties That Bond: The Role of Kinship in Primate Societies
71
Joan B. Silk
5 Neoevolutionary Approaches to Human Kinship
93
Barry S. Hewlett
6 Schneider Revisited: Sharing and Ratification in the Construction of
Kinship 109
Kathey-Lee Galvin
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PART THREE: Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies
7 Bound by Blood? New Meanings of Kinship and Individuality in
Discourses of Genetic Counseling 125
Lynn Åkesson
8 The Threatened Sperm: Parenthood in the Age of Biomedicine
139
Susanne Lundin
PART FOUR: Kinship and Gender
9 Mischief on the Margins: Gender Primogeniture, and Cognatic Descent
among the Maori 156
Karen Sinclair
10 Power, Control, and the Mother-in-Law Problem: Face-Offs in the
American Nuclear Family 175
Allen S. Ehrlich
11 Colliding/Colluding Identities: Race, Class, and Gender in Jamaican
Family Systems 185
Lisa M. Anderson-Levy
12 Kin and Gender in Classic Maya Society: A Case Study from Yaxchilán,
Mexico 204
Cynthia Robin
PART FIVE: New Family Forms and New Formulations of “Family”
13 Parenting from Separate Households: A Cultural Perspective
229
David Jacobson, Joan H. Liem, and Robert S. Weiss
14 Open Adoption: Extending Families, Exchanging Facts
246
Judith S. Modell
15 In the Name of the Father: Theology, Kinship, and Charisma in an
American Polygynous Community 264
William Jankowiak
16 Fictive Kinship in American Biomedicine
285
Richard E. Maddy