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Part 1 How British social anthropologists learned to "look to kinship":reading British social anthropology; the genealogical method in theBritish and French traditions. Part 2 The language of genealogy - a"bottomless pit of analysis"? Part 3 Transposing British kinship theoryto 1980's Portugal: reading lists and teaching programmes; betweenEnglish and Portugese understandings. Part 4 Switching perspectives:exploring Portugese kinship; Portugese constructs - from "nomes" to"conversas". Part 5 Disclosing English kinship.