KINSHIP IN HISTORY CSSH has a long and continuing commitment to kinship as a topic of study—see, for example, such notable essays as Lawrence Stone's “Marriage among the English nobility in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”, 3:182–206 (1961), Jack Goody's “Adoption in cross-cultural perspective,” 11:55–78 (1969), and James D. Faubion's “Kinship is dead. Long live kinship,” 38:67–91 (1996). In this issue two essays show again to what good effect kinship can be put in the hands of able historians.