Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unilateral descent groups / Robert H. Lowie -- The Nuer of the southern Sudan / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Lineage theory : a critical retrospect / Adam Kuper -- African models in the New Guinea highlands / J.A. Barnes -- The Amerindianization of descent and affinity / Peter Rivière -- Inheritance, property, and marriage in Africa and Eurasia / Jack Goody -- Kinship and social organization / W.H.R. Rivers -- Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Concerning Trobriand clans and the kinship category 'tabu' / Edmund Leach -- The Dravidian kinship terminology as an expression of marriage / Louis Dumont -- Prescription, preference and practice : marriage patterns among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India / Anthony Good -- Analysis of Purum affinal alliance / Rodney Needham -- Tetradic theory : an approach to kinship / N.J. Allen -- What is kinship all about? / David M. Schneider -- Toward a unified analysis of gender and kinship / Sylvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier -- Sexism and naturalism in the study of kinship / Harold W. Scheffler -- The substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth : feeding, personhood, and relatedness amond Malays in Pulau Langkawi / Janet Carsten -- Surrogate motherhood and American kinship / Helena Ragoné -- Eggs and wombs : the origins of Jewishness / Susan Martha Kahn -- Gender, genetics, and generation : reformulating biology in lesbian kinship / Corinne P. Hayden -- Has the world turned? Kinship and family in the contemporary American soap opera / Linda Stone -- Kinship, gender, and mode of production in post-Mao China : variations in two northern villages / Hua Han -- Primate kin and human kinship / Robin Fox -- Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions : the mother's brother controversy reconsidered / Maurice Bloch and Dan Sperber.