Kinship: an introduction to the basic concepts/
Robert Parkin
- UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 1997.
- xi,208p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Part I: Basic Concepts:. 1. Introductory. 2. Descent. 3. The Family and Other Kin Groupings. 4. Marriage and Sexual Relations. 5. Kinship (Relationship) Terminology. 6. Symmetric Affinal Alliance. 7. Asymmetric Affinal Alliance. 8. FZD and ZD Marriage. 9. Non--prescriptive Pseudo--systems. 10. The Meaning of Kinship. Part II: Theories of Kinship:. 11. The Significance of Kinship in Anthropology. 12. Theories of Descent. 13. Kinship Terminology and Affinal Alliance. 14. Typologies and Terminological Change. 15. Ethnographic Examples and Further Reading.