The Common Heritage of Mankind Principle (CHP) as it was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in various declarations and treaties, and as it is understood in the early-twenty-first century, affirms that the natural resources of the deep...

Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. Cultures worldwide possess a wide range of systems of tracking kinship and descent. Anthropologists break these down into simple concepts which are common among many different...

Stanford: Stanford University Press 313 pp., $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-4261-8 Publication Date: July 2002 In his work on the history of patrilineal kinship organization in the Fuzhou region of China during the late imperial period, Michael Szonyi questions the idea of kinship as...

Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China. By Michael Szonyi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xii plus 313 pp. $49.50). The ability to do fieldwork in the People's Republic of China has enabled historians like Michael Szonyi to add historical...