Download or read book Sex, Gender, and Kinship written by Burton Pasternak and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to a growing interest in the nature and place of family in society, this text looks at gender, families, family relationships and the role of larger kin groups from a cross-cultural perspective. It draws upon ethnographic accounts and cross-cultural studies to determine and illustrate possible characteristics and outcomes, highlight options that occur more or less frequently, and--where possible--to account for choices made.