Abstract
Two recent works reintroduce China into the anthropology of kinship. Cai Hua and Laurent Barry are both students of Francoise Heritier, who at the College de France has revitalised our understanding of the systems of African kinship. Their two books, similarly constructed, devote considerable space to the systems of the Han. The anthropology of kinship, a discipline founded in 1870 by Lewis Henry Morgan’s Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, and revived in 1949 by the th...
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