Kinship and Family

The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, <i>Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader</i> is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>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.<br /> </li> <li>Draws on the editors’ complementary areas of expertise to offer readers a single-volume survey of the most important and critical work on kinship.<br /> </li> <li>Includes extensive discussion and analysis of the selections that contextualizes them within theoretical debates.</li> </ul>