These accounts illustrate how marriage and kinship complement each other and how this practice provided women with economic influence and social mobility, often rivaling men's. Despite the ...

Historically, anthropologists defining kinship tended to begin with who people are related to by birth and by marriage. Family was often considered a bedrock of society. Over time, the idea of what ...

“Queering Kinship” is Petrey’s own attempt at ... What do you believe the story of Adam and Eve actually says about marriage? We need to accept that this text might not be designed to ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

For much of recorded history, marriage was rooted in wealth, social standing and livestock. “Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis ...

The kinship connection is where victim advocacy begins.” Hornsby acknowledged that while all victims may not be related by blood or marriage, there is a connection and bond between the shared ...

Over the course of the decade, right-wing media's culture war has resulted in over a thousand anti-trans bills proposed across the country — with more than 800 considered this year alone. Laws ...

These accounts illustrate how marriage and kinship complement each other and how this practice provided women with economic influence and social mobility, often rivalling men's. Colonial ...