Kinship and Gender: An Introduction

Article number 10218753

Kinship and Gender: An Introduction provides an accessible and systematic introduction to the study of kinship and gender within cultural anthropology, examining how societies around the world organize and give meaning to relationships such as descent, marriage, and reproduction; the book situates these kinship systems within their broader social and cultural contexts and demonstrates how gender roles are not biologically fixed but socially and historically constructed, highlighting variation across cultures as well as changes driven by modernization and globalization; through comparative examples and theoretical frameworks, it shows how central kinship and gender are to understanding social organization, identity, and power relations.