But how does one do that without undoing decades of critical work, from Schneider onward, into the whole idea of “*the* family,” or of the notion that marriage or kinship are human universals? There’s something about Anderson’s deployment of the term “traditional family systems” that makes me nervous. Has anyone actually looked at Therborn? Does he take account of the critical lit (Yanagisako, Borneman, Errington etc.)?