Peter P. Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lecturer at the University of Vienna

• Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Choosing kin: sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community, 3 Power and kinship in Shuar and Achuar society, 4 On the importance of being the last one: inheritance and marriage in an Austrian peasant community, 5 Kinship, reciprocity and the world market, 6 Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?, 7 ‘Philoprogenitiveness’ through the cracks: on the resilience and benefits of kinship in Utopian communes, 8 Concluding remarks, Index

Peter P. Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lecturer at the University of Vienna

• Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Choosing kin: sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community, 3 Power and kinship in Shuar and Achuar society, 4 On the importance of being the last one: inheritance and marriage in an Austrian peasant community, 5 Kinship, reciprocity and the world market, 6 Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?, 7 ‘Philoprogenitiveness’ through the cracks: on the resilience and benefits of kinship in Utopian communes, 8 Concluding remarks, Index

Peter P. Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lecturer at the University of Vienna

• Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Choosing kin: sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community, 3 Power and kinship in Shuar and Achuar society, 4 On the importance of being the last one: inheritance and marriage in an Austrian peasant community, 5 Kinship, reciprocity and the world market, 6 Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?, 7 ‘Philoprogenitiveness’ through the cracks: on the resilience and benefits of kinship in Utopian communes, 8 Concluding remarks, Index