ISBN:
9780429871665
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 321 Seiten)
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Karte
Ausgabe:
Sixth edition
DDC:
306.83
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 4 Through the Mother -- The Matrilineal Puzzle -- Case 4: The Navajo -- Case 5: Visiting Husbands: The Nayar andthe Mosuo -- Matrilineal Contrasts -- The Matrifocal Family -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Further Reading -- Suggested Classroom Media -- Notes -- References -- 5 Double, Bilateral, and Cognatic Descent -- Double Descent -- Case 6: The Beng -- Bilateral Societies -- Cognatic Descent -- Case 7: The Huli -- Descent, Residence, and Female Pollution -- Double and Cognatic Concerns -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Further Reading -- Suggested Classroom Media -- Notes -- References -- 6 Marriage -- Monogamy, Polygyny, and Polyandry -- Case 8: Nyinba Polyandry -- Marriage and Alliance -- Exogamy and Cross-Cousin Marriage -- Exogamy and Exchange: Manipulating Women? -- Endogamy -- Marriage and Fertility
Kurzfassung:
Discussion Questions -- Suggested Classroom Media -- 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 9: Breadwinning Women -- Case 10: Foster Parenting in the United States -- Pets as Family Members -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Further Reading -- Suggested Classroom Media -- Notes -- References -- 8 Kinship, Gender, and Contemporary Social Issues -- Alternative Sexualities -- Alternative Families -- Case 11: Polygyny in the United States -- Violence against Women -- Case 12: Domestic Violence and Lineal Masculinity -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Further Reading -- Suggested Classroom Media -- Note -- References -- 9 Kinship, Gender, and the New Reproductive Technologies -- The New Reproductive Technologies -- Social, Legal, and Moral Implications -- Kinship and Gender -- Case 13: New Reproductive Technologies Cross-Culturally and Transnationally -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Further Reading -- Suggested Classroom Media -- Notes -- References -- 10 The Globalization of Kinship -- Kinship, Urbanization, and Transnational Migration -- Kinship and Transnational Adoption -- Case 14: Child Circulation in Peru -- Continuities -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Further Reading -- Suggested Classroom Media -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix Kinship Terminology -- Index
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