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AbstractThis paper was concerned with the changing nature of adoptive kinship. The analysis was located in the context of current sociological and anthropological theory and parallels were drawn with other alternative family forms i.e. gay and lesbian families, and families formed by new reproductive technologies.Adoption as a family form has largely been neglected in sociological and anthropological literature, yet the changing nature of adoption, particularly in relation to open adoption and gay and lesbian adoption, means that it has an important contribution to make to new discourses of kinship. Adoption is far more likely to feature in psychological and child welfare literature than that on the family and kinship, yet it is a unique addition to the heterogeneous family landscape with a profound impact on cultural definitions of family and kinship.By considering contemporary adoption practice through a social construction and kinship theory lens, the paper argues that new kinship studies are helpful in conceptualizing adoptive kinship. Adoption also has a valuable and significant contribution to make to contemporary kinship theory.

This article surveys representations of kin in trans-alpine Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, with particular attention to the Netherlands and Germany. In the Middle Ages most such images occurred in a religious context where kin appeared in funeral monuments or as donors in devotional images. In the sixteenth century kin images were transformed under the influence of Erasmian Christian humanism and Protestantism into apparently secular portraits Interpreted on a symbolic level, however, they reflect the set of values that kinship ideally supported: the family as an institution, sustaining the moral, spiritual, and material well-being of its members from generation to generation. The symbolic expression of these values shifted from a basically religious idiom in the sixteenth century to a naturalistic one in the eighteenth. The changing treatment of dead members of the family is considered in this light.

This article surveys representations of kin in trans-alpine Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, with particular attention to the Netherlands and Germany. In the Middle Ages most such images occurred in a religious context where kin appeared in funeral monuments or as donors in devotional images. In the sixteenth century kin images were transformed under the influence of Erasmian Christian humanism and Protestantism into apparently secular portraits. Interpreted on a symbolic level, however, they reflect the set of values that kinship ideally supported: the family as an institution, sustaining the moral, spiritual, and material well-being of its members from generation to generation. The symbolic expression of these values shifted from a basically religious idiom in the sixteenth century to a naturalistic one in the eighteenth The changing treatment of dead members of the family is considered in this light.

As observed in recent centuries, the contemporary variety of kinship systems reflects millennia of human migration, cultural inheritance, adaptation, and diversification. This review describes key developments in prehistoric kinship, from matricentric hominin evolution to the Neolithic transition to agriculture and the heterogeneous resilience of matriliny. Starting with our hominin ancestors, kinship evolved among a cooperative breeding species to multilevel group structure among human hunter-gatherers, to substantial kinship changes brought on by the origins of intensified farming, to permanent settlements and unequal resource access. This review takes the approach that new forms of subsistence facilitated new equations of reproductive success, which changed cultural norms of kinship systems and heritable wealth. Subsequently, the formation of complex societies diminished kinship as the primary organizing principle of society. The article describes new methodologies and theoretical developments, along with critiques of bioarchaeological interpretations of prehistoric kinship.

Kazakh, one of today's contemporary Kipchak dialects, is a very rich language in terms of vocabulary. This vocabulary stems from the knowledge that Kazakh brought from the past and its relationship with other languages. In this study, the kinship names used in Kazakh today are emphasized. These kinship names were evaluated under two headings. Firstly, the words related to the kinship names, which are reflected in the Kazakh vocabulary from the historical periods and works of Turkish, were evaluated. In this section, the form and meaning of the word in which historical period and work is first given, as well as information about its shape and meanings in the following processes. In the second part, borrowed words from other languages that have been included in Kazakh vocabulary have been evaluated. Here, too, information is given about the language the words come from and their shape and meaning in that language. In addition, in order to reinforce the word, examples from other contemporary dialects besides Kazakh were given. Keywords: Kazakh, kinship names, vocabulary, quotation words.

The Yuma kinship terms have been listed and their structure analyzed.
Comment has been made on certain morphological features of the kinship terms.
From the analysis of the usage pattern of male and female terms the suggestion has been derived that a relatively simple conceptual system underlies the relatively complex terminological system.
Some congruence has been shown between the affinal kinship terminology, the naming practices, and the probable former local group organization.

Kinship in international relations: introduction and framework / Iver B. Neumann, Kristin Haugevik and Jon Harald Sande Lie -- Kinship as an international ordering principle in the nineteenth century / Morten Skumsrud Andersen and Benjamin de Carvalho -- Kith, kin and inter-state relations: international politics as family life / Kristin Haugevik -- Kinship diplomacy, or diplomats of a kin / Halvard Leira -- "Brothers in arms": kinship, gender and military organisations / Nina Græger -- Colonized children: Chechnya in Russia / Julie Wilhelmsen -- Brother, where art thou? kinship in Turkish region-building / Einar Wigen -- Kinship in Indian politics: dynasties, nepotism and imagined families / Francesca R. Jensenius -- A command-chain of brothers: kinship in Chinese foreign policy / Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson -- Like grandfather, like grandson: kinship as a legitimating force in Japan's international relations / Wrenn Yennie Lindgren -- Conclusion: the heterogeneity of kinship systems and world politics / Andreas Aagaard Nøhr.

New Directions in Anthropological Kinship is an important, expansive, and provocative collection of essays that simultaneously demonstrates both the vitality and promise of the reconstituted field of kinship studies as well as the intellectual valueof a broadly defined anthropology. The contributors present a good deal of original research in highly accessible prose, and analyze topics ranging from the history of kinship studies, primate kinship, and problems with mothers-in-law, to discourses of genetic counseling, post-divorce parenting, open adoption, and the gender(ed) and class politics of kinship in nation-states. This fine book will be of interest to seasoned anthropologists and to students at all levels.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Abbreviations for Kin types -- Introduction -- 1. Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies -- 2. Anthropology, Mathematics, and Per Hage's Contribution to Kinship Theory -- Part I: Kinship and Prehistory -- 3. Back to Proto-Sapiens (Part 1) -- 4. Back to Proto-Sapiens (Part 2) -- 5. Reconstructing Ancient Kinship -- 6. Proto-Bantu Descent Groups -- 7. Kin Terms in the East Bantu Protolanguages -- 8. Proto-Oceanic Society (Austronesian) and Proto-East Bantu Society (Niger-Congo) Residence, Descent, and Kin Terms, ca. 1000 BC -- 9. Oceanic Cousin Terms and Marriage Alliance -- 10. The Transition from Kariera to an Asymmetrical System -- 11. Proto-Central Amerind *Pa -- Part II: Kinship, Language, and Mind -- 12. What is Malay Kinship a ll a bout? Or, the New Kinship Studies and the Fabrication of Ethnographic Fantasy -- 13. The Logic and Structure of Kinship Terminologies -- 14. Salience of Verticality and Horizontality in American and Tongan Kinship Terminologies -- 15. Marking and Language Change -- 16. Grammars of Kinship and Color -- 17. Is There a Kinship Module? -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

In this volume Ladislav Holy considers the extent to which overridingly Western assumptions have guided anthropological studies of kinship. This is the first introductory text on the subject to consider changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing interest in culturally specific notions of personhood and gender. Holy reveals a growing sensitivity on the part of anthropologists to individual ideas of personhood and gender, and encourages further critical reflection on cultural bias in approaches to the subject. Linking kinship with wider debates in anthropology and the social sciences in a lucid, jargon free study, Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship is an invaluable introduction to current practice for specialists and non-specialists alike