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Edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/kinshipfamilyantO00OOunse Kinship and Family Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Editor: Parker Shipton, Boston University Series Advisory Editorial Board: Fredrik Barth, University of Oslo and Boston University Stephen Gudeman, University of Minnesota Jane Guyer, Northwestern University Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen Emily Martin, Princeton University John Middleton, Yale Emeritus Sally Falk Moore, Harvard Emerita Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago Emeritus Joan Vincent, Columbia University and Barnard College Emerita Drawing from some of the most significant scholarly work of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on the ever-changing field of anthropology. It represents both a collection of classic readers and an exciting challenge to the norms that have shaped this discipline over the past century. Each edited volume is devoted to a traditional subdiscipline of the field such as the anthropology of religion, linguistic anthropology, or medical anthropology; and provides a foundation in the canonical readings of the selected area. Aware that such subdisciplinary definitions are still widely recognized and useful — but increas- ingly problematic — these volumes are crafted to include a rare and invaluable perspective on social and cultural anthropology at the onset of the twenty-first century. Each text provides a selection of classic readings together with contempor- ary works that underscore the artificiality of subdisciplinary definitions and point students, researchers, and general readers in the new directions in which anthropol- ogy is moving. 1 Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader Edited by Alessandro Duranti 2 A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion Edited by Michael Lambek 3 The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique Edited by Joan Vincent 4 Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader Edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone Kinship and Family An Anthropological Reader Edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone ¢ Blackwell g Publishing Editorial material and organization © 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Robert Parkin and Linda Stone to be identified as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kinship and family: an anthropological reader / edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone. p. cm. — (Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology; 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-22998-1 (hardback: alk. paper) — ISBN 0-631-22999-X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Kinship. 2. Family. I. Parkin, Robert, 1950-II. Stone, Linda, 1947-III. Series. GN487.K5S3 2004 306.85—de21 2003056028 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10/12pt Sabon by Kolam Information Services Pvt. Ltd, Pondicherry, India For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com Contents Preface Acknowledgments General Introduction Robert Parkin with Linda Stone Part! Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance Section 1 Descent and Marriage Introduction Robert Parkin 1 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 104 Peter Riviere Inheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia 110 Jack Goody Section 2. Terminology and Affinal Alliance 119 Introduction Robert Parkin 121 vi CONTENTS Kinship and Social Organization 136 W. H. R. Rivers Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology 145 Claude Lévi-Strauss Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category “Tabw’ 158 Edmund Leach The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage 176 Louis Dumont Prescription, Preference and Practice: Marriage Patterns among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India 187 Anthony Good 12 Analysis of Purum Affinal Alliance 205 Rodney Needham 13 Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship 22) N. J. Allen Part Il Kinship as Culture, Process, and Agency 237 Section 1 The Demise and Revival of Kinship phish, Introduction Linda Stone 241 14 What Is Kinship All About? Sy David M. Schneider 1S Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship ZS Sylvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier 16 Sexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship 294 Harold W. Scheffler 17 The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi 309 Janet Carsten Section 2 Contemporary Directions in Kinship 329 Introduction Linda Stone 331 18 Surrogate Motherhood and American Kinship 342 Helena Ragoné 19 Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of Jewishness 362 Susan Martha Kahn 20 Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship 378 Corinne P. Hayden CONTENTS VII 21 Has the World Turned? Kinship and Family in the Contemporary American Soap Opera 395: Linda Stone 22 Kinship, Gender, and Mode of Production in Post-Mao China: Variations in Two Northern Villages 408 Hua Han 23 Primate Kin and Human Kinship 424 Robin Fox 24 Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother’s Brother Controversy Reconsidered 438 Maurice Bloch and Dan Sperber Glossary 456 Index 461 Preface The purpose of this collection is to trace, through selected examples, the develop- ment of mainstream kinship theory and to provide a kind of intellectual genealogy of the treatment of this important topic in anthropology. As will be argued, despite a reduction in interest in kinship in the 1970s and 1980s, it is a topic that has been consistently central to anthropological practice and theory, and, what is more, it has helped form both. All this activity and thought down the years has demonstrated that there are few aspects of kinship that are universal cross-culturally beyond the basics of biology, and that even these basics are subject to variation in the way they are interpreted, if they are recognized indigenously at all. Ultimately, though, however much cross-cultural variation there might be, no society is without some- thing we can recognize and treat as kinship, and comparative studies are once again being seen as both feasible and desirable. Comparison does not necessarily imply a search for uniformities: it can raise questions about the reasons for variations, and even suggest answers, at least in the local context. Thus although kinship has repeatedly been dismissed as a category of use in analysis, it refuses to go away, as the recent spate of books on the topic demonstrates. An overview of what these new studies are both building on and seeking to go beyond is therefore timely. In general, the temptation to try and cover all the innumerable topics that have been discussed under the rubric of kinship has been resisted in the present collection. Instead the focus has been on the development of theory that, in broad terms, has approached kinship as a form of social organization or given reasons for querying or rejecting this association. The collection should therefore be regarded as representative rather than comprehensive, given the limita- tions on selection. However, references are given to other material, much of which will lead the reader off in other, more specialized directions. Following the General Introduction, which offers the sort of overview mentioned above, the book is divided into two parts. Part I covers descent and alliance theory, covering the history of anthropological kinship up to the 1970s. Part II covers the demise and later revival of kinship in anthropology from the early 1970s to the present. Each part is subdivided into two sections. In Part I the first of these sections
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