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Schneider views kinship study as a product of Western bias and challenges its use as the universal measure of the study of social structure

In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider rocked the anthropological world with his announcement that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This v

In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called “repatriation of anthropology” and by the influence of femin

An approachable and original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology.

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to p