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Kinship and Family

An Anthropological Reader

David Parkin editor Linda Stone editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:17th Nov '03

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The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day.


  • Brings together for the first time both classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on such electrifying contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship.
  • Draws on the editors’ complementary areas of expertise to offer readers a single-volume survey of the most important and critical work on kinship.
  • Includes extensive discussion and analysis of the selections that contextualizes them within theoretical debates.

"One looks to a Reader to be authoritative: this is also a highly imaginative collection. Nuanced as well as balanced, the editors’ compilations bring out the best not just in the study of kinship but in anthropology. A tonic for old hands and new hands alike." Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

ISBN: 9780631229995

Dimensions: 246mm x 173mm x 37mm

Weight: 866g

496 pages