Description:
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.
Review Quotes: "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