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Kinship and gender : an introduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Linda, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2006]
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Kinship.
Sex role.
Human reproduction.
Matrilineal kinship.
Patrilineal kinship.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gender, reproduction, and kinship
  • What is kinship?
  • The kinship code
  • Key concepts
  • Kinship theory
  • Kinship and gender
  • Notes
  • Suggested further reading
  • Suggested classroom videos
  • References
  • 2. The evolution of kinship and gender
  • Kinship and evolutionary theory
  • Kin recognition
  • Case 1 : deaths in the families of chimps
  • Primate kinship
  • Primate gender
  • Kinship, gender, and human evolution
  • Incest and exogamy
  • Human kinship
  • Notes
  • Suggested further reading
  • Suggested classroom video
  • References
  • 3. The power of patrilines
  • Lineage and clan
  • Patrilocality
  • Patrilineal procreation
  • Case 2 : the Nuer
  • Case 3 : Nepalese Brahmans
  • Contrasts and concerns
  • Notes
  • Suggested further reading
  • Suggested classroom videos
  • References
  • 4. Through the mother
  • The matrilineal puzzle
  • Case 4 : the Navajo
  • Case 5 : the Nayar
  • Matrilineal contrasts
  • Notes
  • Suggested further reading
  • Suggested classroom videos
  • References
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Suggested further reading
  • Suggested classroom video
  • References
  • 6. Marriage
  • Monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry
  • Case 9 : Nyinba polyandry
  • Marriage and alliance
  • Exogamy and cross-cousin marriage
  • Exogamy and exchange : manipulating women?
  • Endogamy
  • Case 10 : the Julio-Claudians
  • Notes
  • Suggested classroom videos
  • References
  • 7. A history of Euro-American kinship and gender
  • Dowry and the double standard
  • From the Middle Ages to modern times
  • The North American experience
  • Case 11 : new and novel families
  • Notes
  • Suggested further reading
  • Suggested classroom video
  • References
  • 8. Kinship, gender, and the new reproductive technologies : the beginning of the end?
  • The new reproductive technologies
  • Case 12 : new reproductive technologies in Israel
  • Social, legal, and moral implications
  • Kinship and gender
  • Continuities
  • Notes
  • Suggested further reading
  • Suggested classroom videos
  • References
  • Appendix. Kinship terminology
  • Glossary.