Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Kaja Finkler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xiv. 277 pp.     

Combined Review: Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier and Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Kaja Finkler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 296 pp.
Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England. Jeanette Edwards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 264 pp.     

European and Mediterranean Studies, an Overview

Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony . Daniel Chirot. Studies in Social Discontinuity
People of the Mediterranean: An Essay in Comparative Social Anthropology . J. Davis.
Catholics and Protestants: Agricultural Modernization in Two German Villages . Gunter Golde.
Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800 . Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk , and E. P. Thompson.
The One Blood: Kinship and Class in an Irish Village . Elliott Leyton.
Mediterranean Family Structures . J. G. Peristiany. Studies in Social Anthropology, 13
Kinship and Modernization in Mediterranean Society . J. G. Peristiany.
The Fate of Shechem: Or the Politics of Sex . Julian Pitt-Rivers.
East European Peasantries: Social Relations: An Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Articles . Irwin T. Sanders and Walter C. Bisselle
Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily . Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider. Studies in Social Discontinuity
Three Bells of Civilization: The Life of an Italian Hill Town . Sydel Silverman.
Peasant Wisdom: Cultural Adaptation in a Swiss Village . Daniela Weinberg.     

Recent Studies in Chinese Kinship

Chinese Family and Kinship . Hugh Baker.
The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China . Elisabeth Croll.
Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845–1945 . Arthur P. Wolf and Chieh-shan Huang.     

Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness.; New Directions in Anthropological Kinship.

Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness. Peter P. Schweitzer. ed. New York: Routledge, 2000. 221 pp.
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship. Linda Stone. ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 352 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
NORTH AMERICA: Camp, Clan, and Kin among the Cow Creek Seminole of Florida , Alexander Spoehr.
NORTH AMERICA: Kinship System of the Seminole. Alexander Spoehr.
NORTH AMERICA: The Florida Seminole Camp. Alexander Spoehr.
NORTH AMERICA: Changing Kinship Systems. Alexander Spoehr.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
A pache Kinship Systems. R obert N. B ellah .
Wichita Kinship, Past and Present. K arl S chmitt and I va O sanai S chmitt .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
METHODS AND PRINCIPLES: Kin, Kinship .
METHODS AND PRINCIPLES: Marriage, Introductory and Primitive.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Social Anthropology . By Godfrey Lienhardt Rethinking Anthropology . By E. R. Leach Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives . By Talcott Parsons Kinship and Family Organization . Bernard Farber The Impact of Urbanization in By G. Breese . Societies Series. Cliffs, N.J., 1965. Paperbound, no price stated. Industry. By W. E. Moore; Newly Developing Countries The Hunters . By Elman R. Service The New Guinea Villager . By C. D. Rowley. F. W. Cheshire Behind the Ranges : Patrolling in New Guinea. By J. P. Sinclair Australian Aboriginal Portraits . By Charles P. Mountford Animal Species and Their Evolution . By A. J. Cain The Concise Encyclopadia of Archaeology . Edited by Leonard Cottrell Archaeology: An Introduction . By Clement W. Meighan Marine Archaeology . Edited by Joan du Plat Taylor The Land of Shinar . By Leonard Cottrell Ancient Europe : A Survey. By Stuart Piggott The North Britons : the Prehistory of a Border People. By Richard Feachem The Hardin Village Site . By Lee H. Hanson Pattern and Process in the Early Intermediate Pottery of the Central Coast of Peru . By Thomas C. Patterson     

Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China

Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China. Myron L. Cohen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 359 pp.     

The Unwavering Eye: David McKnight's Ethnographic‐Historical Legacy

Book reviewed in this article: David McKnight . Going the Whiteman's Way: Kinship and Marriage among Australian Aborigines.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
NORTH AMERICA: Notes on Hopi Clans . R obert H. L owie .
Hopi Kinship . R obert H. L owie .     

Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power and Technological Innovation

Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power and Technological Innovation. Sarah Franklin and Helena Ragoné. eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. vi +245 pp.     

The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge

The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. Françoise Dussart. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. 269 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
ETHNOLOGY: Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Village and its Region . Adrian C. Mayer
ETHNOLOGY. Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-west Pakistan . E. R. Leach     

BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES

Australian Aboriginal Social Organization . David H. Turner.
The Affinal Relationship System: A New Approach to Kinship and Marriage among the Australian Aborigines at Port Keats . Aslaug and Johannes Falkenberg.     

The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider.; Filiation and Affiliation.

The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider. Richard Feinberg and Martin Ottenheimer. eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 235 pp.
Filiation and Affiliation. Harold W. Scheffler. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2001. 202 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Prehistory of Australia. By D. J. Mulvaney Aboriginal Habitat and Economy. By Roger Lawrence The Aborigines of Tasmania. By H. Ling Roth. F. King and Sons The Dreamtime. Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings. By Ainslie Roberts with text by Charles P. Mountford The Aboriginal Languages of the Southwest of Australia. By Wilfred H. Douglas The Languages of Victoria: A Late Survey. By Luise A. Hercus A Survey of New Guinea Languages. By A. Capell Korwars and Korwar Style: Art and Ancestor Worship in North-West New Guinea. By Th. P. van Baaren Pigs for the Ancestors. By Roy A. Rappaport Capitalism, Primitive and Modern. By T. Scarlett Epstein Eskimos of the Nushagak River. By James W. Van Stone Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship and Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon. By Nur Yalman The Indians in Uganda, Caste and Sect in a Plural Society. By H. S. Morris Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. By John Collier Culture and Ageing. By Margaret Clarke and Barbara G. Anderson. Charles C. Thomas, Illinois Culture in Process. By Alan R. Beals Selected Studies in Marriage and the Family. Edited by Robert F. Winch and Louis Wolf Goodman New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter. Background to Evolution in Africa. Edited by Walter W. Bishop and J. Desmond Clark The History of Man. By Carleton S. Coon The Human Species. By Frederick S. Hulse The Birth of Indian Civilization.     

Kinship and Alliance in South India and Australia

Dravidien et Kariera: l'alliance de marriage dans l'Inde du Sud, et en Australie. Louis Dumont . Textes de sciences sociales 14. Paris & The Hague: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Mouton, 1975. 148 pp. 38 F (paper).
The Adnjamathanha Personal Pronoun and the "Wailpi Kinship System." R. Schebeck . Perception of Kinship Structure Reflected in the Adnjamathanha Pronouns. Luise A. Hercus and Isobel M. White . Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 6, Pacific Linguistics, Series A, No. 36. Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1973. 74 pp. n.p.
Texts on The Social System of the Adnjamathanha People With Grammatical Notes. B. Schebeck . Pacific Linguistics, Series D, No. 21. Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1974. xviii + 278 pp. n.p.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
N ichols , M. and G oodall , J. 1999. Brutal Kinship .
L indsey , S. L., G reen , M. N. and B ennett , C. L. 1999. The Okapi. Mysterious animal of Congo-Zaire .
Z ecchini , A. 1998. Le Rhinocéros: au nom de la corne .