Mary Bouquet argues that, while writing-off the idea of kinship in English culture, anthropologists of the British school absorbed the notion of pedigree into t

Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a de

Grimshaw discusses issues of vision in anthropology, considering some key figures throughout the twentieth century.

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

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, publi