In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relatio

Designed for undergraduate courses in kinship, gender, or the two combined, Linda Stone's Kinship and Gender is the product of years of teaching. The topic of k

This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other withi

This book explores gender cross-culturally through the framework of kinship. It includes fifteen ethnographic case studies to give students a strong sense of th

The study of kinship is a fundamental part of the study and the practice of social anthropology. This volume examines the work of three distinguished anthropolo