Overview
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.
- | Author: David Parkin
- | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- | Publication Date: Jan 16, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 479 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 063122999X
- | ISBN-13: 9780631229995
