Full Description
This book explores gender cross-culturally through the framework of kinship. It includes fifteen ethnographic case studies to give students a strong sense of the intricate interconnections between kinship and gender as a lived experience and among a variety of cultural groups.
Contents
Preface -- Gender, Reproduction, and Kinship -- The Evolution of Kinship and Gender -- The Power of Patrilines -- Through The Mother -- Double, Bilateral, and Cognatic Descent -- Marriage -- History of Euro-American Kinship and Gender -- Kinship, Gender, and Contemporary Social Issues -- Kinship, Gender, and the New Reproductive Technologies -- The Globalization Of Kinship -- Appendix: Kinship Terminology
