Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-cultural Perspective
- ISBN-10
- 0132065339
- ISBN-13
- 9780132065337
- Category
- Social Science / Minority Studies
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Authors
- Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Burton Pasternak
Description
Responding to a growing interest in the nature and place of family in society, this text looks at gender, families, family relationships and the role of larger kin groups from a cross-cultural perspective. It draws upon ethnographic accounts and cross-cultural studies to determine and illustrate possible characteristics and outcomes, highlight options that occur more or less frequently, and--where possible--to account for choices made.
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