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Kinship and gender : an introduction / Linda Stone, Washington State University.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813348617 (pbk.)
  • 9780813348612 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.3 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: ""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""-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

""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""-- Provided by publisher.

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