In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider rocked the anthropological world with his announcement that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This v

American Kinship is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally inter

Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproducti

New paperback edition of Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance, which has become an established classic of social science literature.

At one time Francis L.K. Hsu put forth a hypothesis on kinship that proposed a functional relationship between particular kinship systems and behavior patterns