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- Title: Robert Parkin & Linda Stone (Eds.), Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader (Book Review)
- Author : Anthropological Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 214 KB
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Robert Parkin & Linda Stone (eds.), Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004. 496 pp. The stated purpose of this collection of readings is to trace "... the development of mainstream kinship theory ..." (viii) and to provide "an intellectual genealogy" of its treatment. To accomplish this purpose, two original contributions and 22 previously published materials are provided along with a general introduction, four separate section introductions, a glossary, and an index. The contributions are organized into two major parts: "Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance" and "Kinship as Culture, Process, and Agency." The first part primarily concerns anthropological kinship from its inception to the 1970s while the latter focuses upon its decline and subsequent resurgence since then. Each part contains two sections. Part One is divided into "Descent and Marriage" and "Terminology and Affinal Alliance." The second part is divided into the sections; "The Demise and Revival of Kinship" and "Contemporary Directions in Kinship."
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