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Kinship, Theory Architecture Anthropologists have shown an interest in architecture since at least the end of the nineteenth century, though not to the extent that may be expected given the prominent position... February 2024 by Marcel Vellinga , Jorge Tomasi	Health, Kinship Palliative care Palliative care has been developing since the 1960s as a form of caregiving that focuses on the relief of suffering when there is no prospect of a cure or when a patient... October 2023 by Natashe Lemos Dekker	Kinship, Politics Ethnicity Ethnicity is a concept that marks social belonging as much as it does difference, and that lies at the heart of political debates as well as debates across academic disciplines today... August 2022 by Sara Shneiderman , Emily Amburgey
Health, Kinship Care There are many universal assumptions about what care is and how it ought to be provided. Such assumptions are widely embedded in public debates, government policies, and... September 2021 by Patrick McKearney, Megha Amrith	Kinship, Theory Childhood Children, as the youngest members of our species, exist in all human societies across space and time. But societies differ widely in their understandings of childhood as a... June 2020 by Catherine Allerton	Economics, Kinship House and home If asked to imagine home, most of us will come to think of a particular house or building. And, for many of us, the quintessential image of home remains the place we grew up in. This... December 2019 by Farhan Samanani, Johannes Lenhard
Kinship, Politics Queer anthropology Once a slur, the term ‘queer’ now is used to critique restrictive, dominant norms of respectable conduct and to recast sexual and gender variations in positive terms. With roots in... July 2019 by Ara Wilson	Economics, Kinship Adoption What is adoption? To answer this question is to jump directly into one of the key controversies of anthropology: anthropologists, associated for over a century with the close study... June 2018 by Jessaca Leinaweaver	Kinship, Theory Relations To make a topic from one of anthropology’s principal means and objects of study, investigating relations through relations, is offered in the spirit of reflexive enquiry. The entry... May 2018 by Marilyn Strathern
Kinship, Theory Ethnography Ethnographic fieldwork, carried out according to the method of long-term participant-observation, is what defines social anthropology. The method is inductive and open-ended. As such... February 2018 by Signe Howell	Kinship, Politics Tribe The concept of ‘tribal society’ is one of the most prominent and popular ‘anthropological’ notions of our time, yet within western social and cultural anthropology it has been... September 2016 by David Sneath	Kinship, Theory Matriliny Matriliny is a way of reckoning kinship descent and belonging through the female line. This entry discusses some of the forms matrilineal kinship may take in practice before... September 2016 by Jessica Johnson

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