Edited by Linda Stone - Contributions by Lynn Åkesson; Lisa M. Anderson-Levy; Caroline B. Brettell; Rosa De Jorio; Allen S. Ehrlich; Kathy-Lee Galvin; Ilana Gershon; Barry S. Hewlett; David Jacobson; William Jankowiak; Louise Lamphere; Joan H. Liem; Susan

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