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The Land, The Law and Legitimate Children: Thinking Through Gender, Kinship and Nation in the British Virgin Islands

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Abstract

Through twenty engaging essays exploring cultures ranging from ancient Judaic civilization to contemporary Brazil, Gender, Kinship and Power places important contemporary issues related to kinship--such as parental responsibility and female-headed households--in their proper comparative and historical framework.

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