New Directions in Anthropological Kinship

Linda Stone is professor of anthropology at Washington State University.

New Directions in Anthropological Kinship is an important, expansive, and provocative collection of essays that simultaneously demonstrates both the vitality and promise of the reconstituted field of kinship studies as well as the intellectual value of a broadly defined anthropology. The contributors present a good deal of original research in highly accessible prose, and analyze topics ranging from the history of kinship studies, primate kinship, and problems with mothers-in-law, to discourses of genetic counseling, post-divorce parenting, open adoption, and the gender(ed) and class politics of kinship in nation-states. This fine book will be of interest to seasoned anthropologists and to students at all levels.

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Theoretical Implications of New Directions in Anthropological KinshipPart 3 Kinship in the History of AnthropologyChapter 4 Whatever Happened to Kinship Studies?Chapter 5 "Not that Lineage Stuff": Teaching Kinship into the 21st CenturyPart 6 Biology and Culture in the Study of KinshipChapter 7 Ties that Bond: The Role of Kinship in Primate StudiesChapter 8 Neoevolutionary Approaches to Human KinshipChapter 9 Schneider Revisited: Sharing and Ratification in the Construction of KinshipPart 10 Kinship and New Reproductive TechnologiesChapter 11 Bound by Blood? New Meanings of Kinship and Individuality in Discourses of Genetic CounselingChapter 12 The Threatened Sperm: Parenthood in the Age of BiomedicinePart 13 Kinship and GenderChapter 14 Mischief on the Margins: Gender Primogeniture and Cognatic Descent among the MaoriChapter 15 Power, Control, and the Mother-in-law Problem: Face-offs in the American Nuclear FamilyChapter 16 Colliding/ Colluding Identities: Race, Class, and Gender in Jamaican Family SystemsChapter 17 Kin and Gender in Classic Maya Society: A Case Study from Yaxchilan, MexicoPart 18 New Family Forms and New Formulations of "Family"Chapter 19 Parenting from Separate Households: A Cultural PerspectiveChapter 20 Open Adoption: Extending Families, Exchanging FactsChapter 21 In the Name of the Father: Theology, Kinship, and Charisma in the American Polygynous CommunityChapter 22 Fictive Kinship in American BiomedicinePart 23 Kinship and the Politics of NationsChapter 24 Going Nuclear: New Zealand Bureaucratic Fantasies of Samoan Extended FamiliesChapter 25 Women's Organizations, the Ideology of Kinship, and the State in Post-Independence Mali