Kinship and Family

von Stone, Parkin

496 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9780631229995
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2004
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons