Linda Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-9190-9418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Kinship and Gender
This fully revised seventh edition of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction explores kinship in today’s globalized, increasingly mobile world, and how family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures. Written to engage students, each chapter provides key terms and useful generalizations gleaned through research on the interplay of kinship and gender in both traditional societies and contemporary…
Anglo-Norman Studies XLI
Kinship and Gender
This book explores gender cross-culturally through the framework of kinship. It includes fifteen ethnographic case studies to give students a strong sense of the intricate interconnections between kinship and gender as a lived experience and among a variety of cultural groups.
Kinship and Gender
Does kinship still matter in today’s globalized, increasingly mobile world? Do family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures? Answering with a resounding ‘yes!’, Linda Stone and Diane E. King offer a lively introduction to and working knowledge of kinship. They firmly link these concepts to cross-cultural gender studies, illuminating the malleable nature of gender roles around the world and…
Lineal masculinity
In this article, we present a model of gender within patrilineal descent for a broad region covering Asia, Europe, and North Africa. We develop the concept of "lineal masculinity," a perceived ontological essence that flows to and through men over the generations. It is especially expressed through people's notions of the past, present, and future of their patrilineages. We elaborate lineal masculinity in terms of male achievement, lineage founde…
The Dangers of Creationism
Creationists and some conservative politicians are allies in a culture war that threatens science education in the United States. The threat comes from religious ideologies, such as Intelligent Design, that have never provided a shred of experimental evidence to buttress their claims. This book concludes that the proposition that evolutionary science is against human free will is baseless, and so is the contention that the theory of evolution dep…
The Origins and Evolution of Homo sapiens
The notions of natural selection and drift also apply to humans and their biological and cultural evolution. The science of paleoanthropology explains human evolution through the study of intermediate fossil forms. In addition, geneticists have been able to retrace, through the study of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome DNA, the origin and migrations of prehistoric humans. The understanding of human cultural evolution has greatly benefited from …
The Origins of Life and the Cosmos as Evolutionary Themes
This chapter demonstrates that the origin of the universe was probabilistic, not preordained, because Heisenberg's uncertainty principle would have been violated at the level of the Big Bang. The appearance of structure in the universe was made possible by the decoupling of matter and radiation about 400,000 years after the Big Bang. Structure appeared — and continues to appear — without violating the second law of thermodynamics because entropy …
Evolution of the DNA World and the Chance Events That Accompanied It
First life-forms appeared at least as early as 3.5 billion years ago in the form of prokaryotes. Some of these species developed oxygenic photosynthesis, which resulted in the presence of oxygen gas in the atmosphere. Later, eukaryotes appeared and diversified through mutation and gene duplication (including mutation and duplication of master genes), which led to the rewiring of entire gene networks. The chapter shows that there is no fundamental…
Creationism and Intelligent Design
This chapter demonstrates that Intelligent Design can be called a form of neocreatonism that, just like old-style creationism, confuses the word “theory” with the words “postulate” and “fact”. It shows that Intelligent Design implies purpose in the universe, a concept that science can neither support nor refute. It further describes creation myths as found in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, discussing how these myths influence scientific …
Creationist Purpose and Irreducible Complexity Rebutted
This chapter rebuts irreducible complexity and creationism by explaining the reliability of dating techniques as well as sophisticated laboratory techniques that allow researchers to synthesize extinct genes (genetic archaeology, gene resurrection) and study their homology to other genes. These techniques clearly demonstrate that the irreducible complexity of the eye, the immune system, and the bacterial flagellum are subjective impressions. On t…
What Is Evolutionary Biology and Where Is It Coming From?
This chapter describes the Darwin-Wallace theory of evolution by natural selection. In particular, it explains the notion of fitness, which underlies the concepts of descent with modification and the appearance of species categorized into clades. It shows that descent with modification is a much better evolutionary theory than the “Great chain of being” model, which implies that evolution is driven toward the production of more perfect and comple…
Evolution and Religious Creation Myths
Intelligent Design (ID) thinking and older style creationism argue that evolution by natural selection is an incorrect theory. This book demonstrates that in doing so, neocreationism (Intelligent Design) and classical creationism misinterpret the meaning of scientific theories. This is because these religious doctrines imply teleology and purpose in the natural world, which are not analyzable scientifically. In addition, the concept of “irreducib…
Screen Images and Concepts of Sexual Agency in Science and Social Science
This article contributes to studies of how inequities of power are naturalized in culture through the idea of “screen images,” a form of shared projective thinking. Screen images develop when socioeconomic reality contradicts shared cultural values and thus produces moral anxiety. The screen images we trace are those of the Lady and the Whore in bourgeois Victorian cultures, which we believe represented compromised versions of female sexual agenc…
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
Whatever Happened to Kinship Studies? Reflections of a Feminist Anthropologist Louise Lamphere
Introduction
Cultures of Relatedness
Cultures of Relatedness. New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Janet Carsten. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. vi. 215 pp., illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index
Order, identity, and religion in Nepal
Maskarinec, Gregory G. The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi + 276 pp. including glossary, references and index. $65.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Parish, Steven M. Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. x + 342 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography and index. $49.50 cloth, $17…
Gendered Futures
In the United States, female college students enter less prestigious occupations and earn far less than their male counterparts. Though some employers may discriminate against women, the "gender gap" in the workplace is also fostered by decisions made by women college students themselves. A study conducted on a university campus in the Northwest shows how men and women students position themselves differently for careers, marriage, and parenthood…
Community Participation in Health
Cultural influences in community participation in health
Cultural Crossroads of Community Participation in Development
The approach of community participation now stands as an established strategy to promote a more equitable meeting of the basic needs of poor persons in developing countries. While the moral merits of this approach cannot be discounted, questions remain about the cross-cultural viability of the concept of participatory development. This paper suggests that the concept as promoted by international donor agencies is based on Western notions of self-…
Freak Street to Goa
Film Reviews
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
The Use and Misuse of Surveys in International Development
Developing countries rely heavily on Western survey research methods to gather data for national planning. Although it is known that particular problems with errors may arise when surveys are conducted cross-culturally, little attention has been given to determining the magnitude of the problem. An experiment in Nepal was conducted to measure the accuracy of a popular KAP (knowledge, attitude, practice) survey. This experiment demonstrated that n…
Cultural influences in community participation in health
Primary health care for whom? Village perspectives from Nepal
Lineal masculinity
In this article, we present a model of gender within patrilineal descent for a broad region covering Asia, Europe, and North Africa. We develop the concept of "lineal masculinity," a perceived ontological essence that flows to and through men over the generations. It is especially expressed through people's notions of the past, present, and future of their patrilineages. We elaborate lineal masculinity in terms of male achievement, lineage founde…
Gendered Futures
In the United States, female college students enter less prestigious occupations and earn far less than their male counterparts. Though some employers may discriminate against women, the "gender gap" in the workplace is also fostered by decisions made by women college students themselves. A study conducted on a university campus in the Northwest shows how men and women students position themselves differently for careers, marriage, and parenthood…
Hierarchy and food in Nepalese healing rituals
Screen Images and Concepts of Sexual Agency in Science and Social Science
This article contributes to studies of how inequities of power are naturalized in culture through the idea of “screen images,” a form of shared projective thinking. Screen images develop when socioeconomic reality contradicts shared cultural values and thus produces moral anxiety. The screen images we trace are those of the Lady and the Whore in bourgeois Victorian cultures, which we believe represented compromised versions of female sexual agenc…
Cultures of Relatedness
Cultures of Relatedness. New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Janet Carsten. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. vi. 215 pp., illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index
Film Reviews
Manifestations of Shiva . 1980. Color. 60 minutes. By Malcolm Leigh
Hierarchy and food in Nepalese healing rituals
Tibetan Buddhism
The Fragile Mountain . 1982. A film by Sandra Nichols
The Use and Misuse of Surveys in International Development
Developing countries rely heavily on Western survey research methods to gather data for national planning. Although it is known that particular problems with errors may arise when surveys are conducted cross-culturally, little attention has been given to determining the magnitude of the problem. An experiment in Nepal was conducted to measure the accuracy of a popular KAP (knowledge, attitude, practice) survey. This experiment demonstrated that n…
Primary health care for whom? Village perspectives from Nepal
Film Reviews
Cultural Crossroads of Community Participation in Development
The approach of community participation now stands as an established strategy to promote a more equitable meeting of the basic needs of poor persons in developing countries. While the moral merits of this approach cannot be discounted, questions remain about the cross-cultural viability of the concept of participatory development. This paper suggests that the concept as promoted by international donor agencies is based on Western notions of self-…
Freak Street to Goa
Cultural influences in community participation in health
Community Participation in Health
Order, identity, and religion in Nepal
Maskarinec, Gregory G. The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi + 276 pp. including glossary, references and index. $65.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Parish, Steven M. Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. x + 342 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography and index. $49.50 cloth, $17…
Gendered Futures
In the United States, female college students enter less prestigious occupations and earn far less than their male counterparts. Though some employers may discriminate against women, the "gender gap" in the workplace is also fostered by decisions made by women college students themselves. A study conducted on a university campus in the Northwest shows how men and women students position themselves differently for careers, marriage, and parenthood…
Cultures of Relatedness
Cultures of Relatedness. New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Janet Carsten. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. vi. 215 pp., illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
Whatever Happened to Kinship Studies? Reflections of a Feminist Anthropologist Louise Lamphere
Introduction
Screen Images and Concepts of Sexual Agency in Science and Social Science
This article contributes to studies of how inequities of power are naturalized in culture through the idea of “screen images,” a form of shared projective thinking. Screen images develop when socioeconomic reality contradicts shared cultural values and thus produces moral anxiety. The screen images we trace are those of the Lady and the Whore in bourgeois Victorian cultures, which we believe represented compromised versions of female sexual agenc…
The Dangers of Creationism
Creationists and some conservative politicians are allies in a culture war that threatens science education in the United States. The threat comes from religious ideologies, such as Intelligent Design, that have never provided a shred of experimental evidence to buttress their claims. This book concludes that the proposition that evolutionary science is against human free will is baseless, and so is the contention that the theory of evolution dep…
The Origins and Evolution of Homo sapiens
The notions of natural selection and drift also apply to humans and their biological and cultural evolution. The science of paleoanthropology explains human evolution through the study of intermediate fossil forms. In addition, geneticists have been able to retrace, through the study of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome DNA, the origin and migrations of prehistoric humans. The understanding of human cultural evolution has greatly benefited from …
The Origins of Life and the Cosmos as Evolutionary Themes
This chapter demonstrates that the origin of the universe was probabilistic, not preordained, because Heisenberg's uncertainty principle would have been violated at the level of the Big Bang. The appearance of structure in the universe was made possible by the decoupling of matter and radiation about 400,000 years after the Big Bang. Structure appeared — and continues to appear — without violating the second law of thermodynamics because entropy …
Evolution of the DNA World and the Chance Events That Accompanied It
First life-forms appeared at least as early as 3.5 billion years ago in the form of prokaryotes. Some of these species developed oxygenic photosynthesis, which resulted in the presence of oxygen gas in the atmosphere. Later, eukaryotes appeared and diversified through mutation and gene duplication (including mutation and duplication of master genes), which led to the rewiring of entire gene networks. The chapter shows that there is no fundamental…
Creationism and Intelligent Design
This chapter demonstrates that Intelligent Design can be called a form of neocreatonism that, just like old-style creationism, confuses the word “theory” with the words “postulate” and “fact”. It shows that Intelligent Design implies purpose in the universe, a concept that science can neither support nor refute. It further describes creation myths as found in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, discussing how these myths influence scientific …
Creationist Purpose and Irreducible Complexity Rebutted
This chapter rebuts irreducible complexity and creationism by explaining the reliability of dating techniques as well as sophisticated laboratory techniques that allow researchers to synthesize extinct genes (genetic archaeology, gene resurrection) and study their homology to other genes. These techniques clearly demonstrate that the irreducible complexity of the eye, the immune system, and the bacterial flagellum are subjective impressions. On t…
What Is Evolutionary Biology and Where Is It Coming From?
This chapter describes the Darwin-Wallace theory of evolution by natural selection. In particular, it explains the notion of fitness, which underlies the concepts of descent with modification and the appearance of species categorized into clades. It shows that descent with modification is a much better evolutionary theory than the “Great chain of being” model, which implies that evolution is driven toward the production of more perfect and comple…
Sociology (23 works) · History (14 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Kinship (8 works) · Citation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)