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xii, 292 pages : 24 cm, This undergraduate textbook uses anthropological kinship as a framework for the cross-cultural study of gender. Connecting kinship with gender, Linda Stone focuses on human reproduction and the social and cultural implications of male and female reproductive roles. Her insightful narrative introduces new ways of approaching and understanding cross-cultural variations, Includes bibliographical references and index, Gender, reproduction, and kinship -- The evolution of kinship and gender -- The power of patrilines -- Through the mother -- Double and cognatic descent -- Marriage -- A history of Euro-American kinship and gender -- Kinship, gender, and the new reproductive technologies : the beginning of the end?

Author

Stone, Linda, 1947-

Publisher

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813328591

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social_sciences