Marriage in West Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society and has evolved over time. While traditional heterosexual unions dominate discussions, a lesser-known but ...

CU Boulder anthropologist Kathryn Goldfarb spearheads new book that examines the difficult aspects of family connection. Historically, anthropologists defining kinship tended to begin with who people ...

The Marriage Plus approach supports traditional marriage and kinship arrangements but marriage would not be state-sanctioned. The possibility that marriage will regulated by private religious and ...

Goldfarb: The term ‘kinship’ is fairly academic and is taken to mean the systematic level of family relationships. In the old anthropology literature, it was about trying to discern what sort of ...

Bettina Beer, Cross-Sex Siblingship and Marriage: Transformations of Kinship Relations among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea, Anthropologica, Vol. 57, No. 1 (2015), pp. 211-224 ...

Marriage in west Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society, and has evolved over time. While traditional heterosexual unions dominate discussions, a lesser-known but ...