Gender and kinship : essays toward a unified analysis /

Corporate Author: Stanford University Press
Other Authors: Collier, Jane Fishburne, Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko,, Bloch, Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 1987
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a unified analysis of gender and kinship / Sylvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier
  • Sui genderis : feminism, kinship theory, and structural "domains" / John L. Comaroff
  • Mixed metaphors : native and anthropological models of gender and kinship domains / Sylvia Junko Yanagisako
  • Toward a nuclear freeze? The gender politics of Euro-American kinship analysis / Rayna Rapp
  • Sewing the seams of society : dressmakers and seamstresses in Turin between the wars / Vanessa Maher
  • Hierarchy and the dual marriage system in West Indian society / Raymond T. Smith
  • Rank and marriage, or, Why high-ranking brides cost more / Jane Fishburne Collier
  • The mystification of female labors / Shirley Lindenbaum
  • Fertility and exchange in New Guinea / Harriet Whitehead
  • Producing difference : connections and disconnections in two New Guinea highland kinship systems / Marilyn Strathern
  • Men in groups : a reexamination of patriliny in lowland South America / Judith Shapiro
  • Descent and sources of contradiction in representations of women and kinship / Maurice Bloch.