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 ...

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 ...

Howard County is investing $122,000 to keep families together.

Now on stage at La Jolla Playhouse is the play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" by New York-based playwright Jocelyn Bioh.The play opened on Broadway in 2023, and was nominated for six Tony Awards ...

In books like “My Marriage Sabbatical,” “All Fours” and “Consider Yourself Kissed,” women carve out a place between marriage and divorce.

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 ...