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How do people extend terms such as mother, sibling or cousin beyond their most familiar relationships? This collection explores that question through the work of anthropologist Harold W. Scheffler, presenting both applications of his approach to kinship and arguments that question its assumptions.
Contributors discuss Trobriand relationships, hunter-gatherer networks, adoption, nursing kinship and the use of linguistic evidence in cultural history. Other essays examine marriage patterns, Zuni terminology, metaphor, cognition and approaches drawing on human biology. A historical introduction situates the debates, while diagrams, tables and an index help readers follow the comparisons between different systems of relatedness.