TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stone,Linda
TI  - Kinship and gender: an introduction 
SN  - 0813348617 (pbk.)
U1  - 305.3 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Boulder, CO
PB  - Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Human reproduction
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Matrilineal kinship
KW  - Patrilineal kinship
KW  - Sex role
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337) and index; CONTENTS: Illustrations -- Preface -- Gender,  Reproduction, and Kinship -- Enacting and Embodying  Gender -- Gender and Reproduction -- What Is Kinship? --  The Kinship Code -- Key Concepts Kinship Theory --  Kinship and Gender --  2: The Evolution of Kinship and  Gender -- Kin Recognition -- Case 1: Deaths in the  Families of Chimps -- Kin Selection -- Primate Kinship --  Reproduction, Aggression, and Dominance -- The Human  Transition -- The Incest Taboo Nature, Culture, and Human  Kinship -- 3: The Power of Patrilines -- Lineage and Clan  -- Patrilocality -- Lineal Masculinity -- Case 2: The  Nuer -- Case 3: Nepalese Brahmans -- Patrilineal  Contrasts -- 4: Through the Mother -- The Matrilineal  Puzzle -- Case 4: The Navajo -- Case 5: The Nayar and the  Mosuo -- The Matrifocal Family -- Matrilineal Contrasts - - 5: Double, Bilateral, and Cognatic Descent -- Double  Descent -- Case 6: The Beng -- Bilateral Societies -- Cognatic Descent -- Case 7: The Kwaio -- Case 8: The Huli  -- Descent, Residence, and Female Pollution -- Double and  Cognatic Concerns -- 6: Marriage Monogamy, Polygyny, and  Polyandry -- Case 9: Nyinba Polyandry -- Marriage and  Alliance -- Exogamy and Cross-Cousin Marriage -- Exogamy  and Exchange: Manipulating Women? -- Endogamy -- Marriage  and Fertility -- 7: A History of Euro-American Kinship  and Gender -- Dowry and the Double Standard -- From the  Middle Ages to Modern Times -- The Rise of the Christian  Church -- The North American Experience -- Case 10:  Breadwinning Women -- 8: Kinship, Gender, and  Contemporary Social Issues -- Alternative Families,  Alternative Sexualities -- Case 11: New and Novel  Families in the United States -- Case 12: Polygyny in the  United States -- Violence Against Women -- Case 13: Honor  Killings -- 9: Kinship, Gender, and the New Reproductive  Technologies The New Reproductive Technologies -- Case  14: New Reproductive Technologies in Israel -- Social,  Legal, and Moral Implications -- Kinship and Gender --  The Globalization of Kinship -- Kinship, Urbanization,  and Transnational Migration --Kinship and Transnational  Adoption -- Case 15: Child Circulation in Peru -- Continuities -- Appendix: Kinship Terminology -- Glossary  Index
N2  - ""This 5th Edition of a core anthropology text provides an introduction to the study of kinship and family as a means to understanding cross-cultural gender variation""--
ER  -