Paul Atkinson, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Aditya Bharadwaj, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Katie Featherstone, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005659
The social practices and beliefs surrounding kinship, procreation and inheritance are highly varied. Certainly, they do not necessarily reflect the models of biological inheritance identified by genetic science. Such beliefs are not the preserve of ‘other’ cultures. There is research evidence of complex belief systems among Western populations that are not coterminous with genetic science.
Keywords: kinship; descent; inheritance; genetics; cross-cultural
| Further Reading | |
| book Clay B (1977) Pinikundu: Maternal Nurture, Paternal Substance. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Crocker W and Crocker J (1994) The Canela: Bonding through Kinship, Ritual and Sex. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace. | |
| book Finkler K (2000) Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
| Finkler K (2001) The kin in the gene: the medicalization of family and kinship in American society. Current Anthropology 42(2): 235–264. | |
| book Franklin S (1997) Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception. London: Routledge. | |
| book Holy L (1996) Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship. London: Pluto Press. | |
| book Loizos P and Heady P (eds.) (1999) Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth. London: Athlone Press. | |
| book Marteau T and Richards M (eds.) (1996) The Troubled Helix: Social and Psychological Implications of the New Human Genetics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Strathern M (1992) Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies. London: Routledge. | |
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