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Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader
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Robert Parkin & Linda Stone (eds.), Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004.496 pp.
The stated purpose of this collection of readings is to trace "...the development of mainstream kinship theory..." (viii) and to provide "an intellectual genealogy" of its treatment. To accomplish this purpose, two original contributions and 22 previously published materials are provided along with a general introduction, four separate section introduct...
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After Kinship
Anthropological Quarterly
; Janet Carsten, After Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 230 pp. In 1995, in Nottinghamshire, England, Diane Blood is involved in a dispute with British regulatory agencies and the courts over her efforts to conceive a child with sperm obtained from her dying husband without his
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Franklin, Sarah & Susan McKinnon (eds). Relative values: reconfiguring kinship studies.(Book Review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; viii, 519 pp., figs., illus., bibliogrs. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 16.95[pounds sterling] (paper) A conference in Mallorca in 1998 has produced this valuable and important book. Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the conference brought the discussion of kinship beyond the
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Connectedness and kinship: the continuing search for usable evidence in social history.(Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier)
History: Review of New Books
; Carolyn Earle Billingsley. Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. The methodological and theoretical interests of Historical Methods are the reason why a specialist in the history of Eastern European peasant
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Connectedness and kinship: the continuing search for usable evidence in social history.(Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier)(Book review)
Historical Methods
; Carolyn Earle Billingsley. Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. The methodological and theoretical interests of Historical Methods are the reason why a specialist in the history of Eastern European peasant
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Gestational surrogacy: nature and culture in kinship.
Ethnology
; Anthropological writing about the new reproductive technologies has focused on how they undermine presumed links between nature and culture in kinship. Surrogate motherhood in particular is said to show that natural facts serve as symbolic resources to facilitate choice, a key value of Western
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The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries
Anthropological Quarterly
; James D. Faubion (ed.) The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 277 pp. This is a book about the ethics of affect as manifested in kinship relations. James Faubion asked a number of one-time doctoral students of anthropology at Rice University (Texas)
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Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
; THOMAS SCHWEIZER and DOUGLAS R. WHITE (eds Kinship, Networks, and Exchange. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xi + 337 p. There was a time in anthropology, a long time, when the collection data on and the analysis of kinship systems were assumed to be essential and reached a
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Sumptuary Kinship
Anthropological Quarterly
; ... strategies and tactics of acquiring while spending. Yet we pay special attention to the ever more familiar appeal to genetic tests and maps to establish both kinship and its entitlements further to argue that such an ethics is not simply "acquisitive" in the usual ...
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After kinship.(book)(Book Review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; CARSTEN, JANET. After kinship. xiii, 216 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2004. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth). [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper) In the last decades of the twentieth century, kinship was displaced from the centre of anthropological analysis, eclipsed by related topics such as
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Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History.(Review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; MAYNES, MAY JO et at. (eds). x, 374 pp., bibliogrs. New York, London: Routledge, 1996. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper This volume is the result of the 1992 inaugural conference 'Matrilineality and Patrilineality in Comparative and Historical Perspectives' of the interdisciplinary
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