Introduction : politics and kinship / Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber
Introduction to African political systems / Meyer Fortes and Edward E. Evans-Pritchard
Kinship within and beyond the 'Movement of Progressive Societies' / Susan McKinnon
Kinship weaponized : representations of kinship and binary othering in U.S. military anthropology / Thomas Zitelmann
Father state, motherland, and the birth of modern Turkey / Carol Delaney
The village headman in British Central Africa : introduction / Max Gluckman
State kinning and kinning the state in Serbian elder care programs / Tatjana Thelen, André Thiemann and Duška Roth
Doubt is the mother of all inventions : DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting / Claudia Fonseca
The algebra of genocide / Diane Nelson
Carnal knowledge and imperial power : gender and morality in the making of race / Ann Laura Stoler
Genomics en route : ancestry, heritage and the politics of identity across the Black Atlantic / Katharina Schramm
Making merit : the Indian Institutes of Technology and the social life of caste / Ajantha Subramanian
The origins of the family, property, and the state / Friedrich Engels
Including our own / Jeanette Edwards and Marilyn Strathern
Parenthood and social reproduction / Esther Goody
No school without foster families in northern Benin : a social historical approach / Erdmute Alber
Defining parents, making citizens : nationality and citizenship in transnational surrogacy / Daisy Deomampo.