
Does kinship still matter in today's globalized, increasingly mobile world? Do family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures? Answering with a resounding 'yes ', Linda Stone and Diane E. King offer a lively introduction...

This fully revised seventh edition of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction explores how family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures. It is essential reading for students taking their first steps into anthropology,...






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...

This book explores gender cross-culturally through the framework of kinship. It includes fifteen ethnographic case studies to give students a strong sense of the intricate interconnections between kinship and gender as a lived experience and among a variety of cultural groups...