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Cover title: New Directions in Anthropological Kinship author: Stone, Linda publisher: Rowman & Littlefield isbn10 | asin: 0742501078 print isbn13: 9780742501072 ebook isbn13: 9780585384245 language: English subject Kinship. publication date: 2001 lcc: GN480.S83 2001eb ddc: 306.83 subject: Kinship. Page i NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL KINSHIP Page ii Page iii NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL KINSHIP Linda Stone, Editor ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS , INC . Lanham • Boulder • New York • Oxford Page iv ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com 12 Hid's Copse Road Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ, England Copyright © 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 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, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stone, Linda, 1947– New directions in anthropological kinship / Linda Stone. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7425-0107-18 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7425-0108-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Kinship. I. Title. GN480 .S83 2000 00–040303 306.83—dc21 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992. Page v Contents Preface ix 1 Introduction: Theoretical Implications of New Directions in Anthropological Kinship 1 Linda Stone PART ONE: Kinship in the History of Anthropology 2 Whatever Happened to Kinship Studies? Reflections of a Feminist Anthropologist 21 Louise Lamphere 3 Not That Lineage Stuff: Teaching Kinship into the Twenty-First Century 48 Caroline B. Brettell PART TWO: Biology and Culture in the Study of Kinship 4 Ties That Bond: The Role of Kinship in Primate Societies 71 Joan B. Silk 5 Neoevolutionary Approaches to Human Kinship 93 Barry S. Hewlett 6 Schneider Revisited: Sharing and Ratification in the Construction of Kinship 109 Kathey-Lee Galvin Page vi PART THREE: Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies 7 Bound by Blood? New Meanings of Kinship and Individuality in Discourses of Genetic Counseling 125 Lynn Åkesson 8 The Threatened Sperm: Parenthood in the Age of Biomedicine 139 Susanne Lundin PART FOUR: Kinship and Gender 9 Mischief on the Margins: Gender Primogeniture, and Cognatic Descent among the Maori 156 Karen Sinclair 10 Power, Control, and the Mother-in-Law Problem: Face-Offs in the American Nuclear Family 175 Allen S. Ehrlich 11 Colliding/Colluding Identities: Race, Class, and Gender in Jamaican Family Systems 185 Lisa M. Anderson-Levy 12 Kin and Gender in Classic Maya Society: A Case Study from Yaxchilán, Mexico 204 Cynthia Robin PART FIVE: New Family Forms and New Formulations of “Family” 13 Parenting from Separate Households: A Cultural Perspective 229 David Jacobson, Joan H. Liem, and Robert S. Weiss 14 Open Adoption: Extending Families, Exchanging Facts 246 Judith S. Modell 15 In the Name of the Father: Theology, Kinship, and Charisma in an American Polygynous Community 264 William Jankowiak 16 Fictive Kinship in American Biomedicine 285 Richard E. Maddy
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