Linda Stone offers a lively introduction to and working knowledge of kinship, illuminating the malleable nature of gender roles around the world and over time.

Table of Contents

• Illustrations
• Preface
• 1 Gender, Reproduction, and Kinship
• Enacting and Embodying Gender
• Gender and Reproduction
• What Is Kinship?
• The Kinship Code
• Key Concepts
• Kinship Theory
• Kinship and Gender
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• References
• 2 The Evolution of Kinship and Gender
• Kin Recognition
• Case 1: Deaths in the Families of Chimps
• Kin Selection
• Primate Kinship
• Reproduction, Aggression, and Dominance
• The Human Transition
• The Incest Taboo
• Nature, Culture, and Human Kinship
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• References
• 3 The Power of Patrilines
• Lineage and Clan
• Patrilocality
• Lineal Masculinity
• Case 2: The Nuer
• Case 3: Nepalese Brahmans
• Patrilineal Contrasts
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• References
• 4 Through the Mother
• The Matrilineal Puzzle
• Case 4: The Navajo
• Case 5: The Nayar and the Mosuo
• The Matrifocal Family
• Matrilineal Contrasts
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• 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
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• 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
• Marriage and Fertility
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• References
• 7 A History of Euro-American Kinship and Gender
• Dowry and the Double Standard
• From the Middle Ages to Modern Times
• The Rise of the Christian Church
• The North American Experience
• Case 10: Breadwinning Women
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Website
• References
• 8 Kinship, Gender, and Contemporary Social Issues
• Alternative Families, Alternative Sexualities
• Case 11: New and Novel Families in the United States
• Case 12: Polygyny in the United States
• Violence Against Women
• Case 13: Honor Killings
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• References
• 9 Kinship, Gender, and the New Reproductive Technologies
• The New Reproductive Technologies
• Case 14: New Reproductive Technologies in Israel
• Social, Legal, and Moral Implications
• Kinship and Gender
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• References
• 10 The Globalization of Kinship
• Kinship, Urbanization, and Transnational Migration
• Kinship and Transnational Adoption
• Case 15: Child Circulation in Peru
• Continuities
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Further Reading
• Suggested Classroom Media
• Websites
• References
• Appendix: Kinship Terminology
• Glossary