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

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

These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, c

Schneider views kinship study as a product of Western bias and challenges its use as the universal measure of the study of social structure

The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revi