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

An approachable and original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology.

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to p

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