Kinship Press

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): David M. SchneiderNumber of pages: 148Publication date: 1980Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 9Cover typ...

Reducere. DescriptionSame-sex marriage may be legal in America, but it's still far from the accepted norm, especially in Christian circles. So where can LBGT...

We're heading back to Temperance Falls for a second chance at love... She's ready to move on High school reunions are supposed to be fun. Unfortuna...

Reducere. When shifters take to the octagon, there's no telling how bad things can get. Especially when they come face-to-face with more than just an opponen...

Reducere. She thinks they're a mistake I've spent my whole life working toward my goals, being the best I can be at my job. Arrogant, persistent, pain in the...

Reducere. What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What...

Reducere. Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance has become an established classic of the social science literature. It has been praised above ...

Reducere. We were in hell the night we met, but a handful of years later, heaven is almost in reach. I just need to break my guardians' suffocating hold on m...

She's the definition of trouble For as long as I've known him, Brandon has always been the workaholic single dad to my best friend. But one night, ...

She's the one thing he won't give up on The calls started a year ago. I needed an easy release, and he was there, for a price. One call turned into...

Reducere. Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize human suffering, the inevitability of loss, and eventual extinction, whether physi...

She's too sinful to resist I escaped my hometown the second I could, only to be brought back by my late grandmother's will. The Christian bookstore...

Reducere. These aliens have been looking for love in all the wrong solar systems...One ad in a space station rest room, three non-earthlings looking for love...

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of queer subjects who engaged in tran...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionIf two is better than one and three is better than two, then seven must be better than just about anything.I was on the run from my past...

A collaboration between artist and poet exploring archetypes and belonging from South Africa, through London to the Scottish Highlands.Illustration...

Reducere. She's completely off limits In my eyes--and those of every woman on Temperance Falls--Doctor Josh Hutton is the ultimate catch: single dad, handsom...

She's temptation personified Nathan's always been more than just my dad's friend. I never thought he'd see me as an adult, especially not after avo...

Reducere. Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Ind...

Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus. Using a modern scholarly approach and broad ...

En un pueblo llamado Justice, no hay nada que temer, excepto a un hombre dispuesto a romper todas las reglas por la mujer que anhela.Como ex Boina ...

The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the ...

DescriptionIn this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best schol...

Through studies of the literature of Antoine Francois Prevost, Claude Crebillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Francoise de Graffigny among others, Rutle...

This book explores Chinese young men's views of manhood and develops a new concept of 'elastic masculinity' which can be stretched and forged diffe...

Reducere. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled c...

Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- .

Reducere. In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"-the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United...

Reducere. "A gem of historical scholarship!"--Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century AmericaHow do intimate rel...

Reducere. In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the marriage crisis in Jordan and the Middle East. Rap...

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...

Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic fami...

A biblical scholar identifies the covenant as an overarching theme among diverse biblical texts While the canonical scriptures were produced over m...

Reducere. The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dr. Mareike WinchellIllustration(s): 26 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: ...

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africa...

DescriptionBased on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the e...