Cultures of Relatedness
New Approaches to the Study of Kinship
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- Editor: Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh
- Date Published: March 2000
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- isbn: 9780521651936
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Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature'. These developments have prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms of relatedness in other societies, and to review the ways in which relationships are symbolised and interpreted in our own society. Defamiliarizing some classic cases, challenging the established analytic categories of anthropology, the contributors to this innovative book focus on the boundary between the 'biological' and the 'social', and bring into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.
Read more- Likely to be adopted as an anthropology/gender studies/cultural studies textbook for use on kinship and gender courses
- Challenges established analytic categories of anthropology, bringing into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship
- Includes established names among its contributors, Marilyn Strathern, Sharon Hutchinson, Rita Astuti
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'In Cultures of Relatedness, kinship study takes flight once again, soars to new heights, and offers us fresh perspectives on a topic that has long been integral to anthropology.' Ethnos
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- Date Published: March 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521651936
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: cultures of relatedness Janet Carsten
2. Chinese patriliny and the cycles of yang and laiwang Charles Stafford
3. Identity and substance: the broadening bases of relatedness among the Nuer of southern Sudan Sharon Elaine Hutchinson
4. Sentiment and substance in North Indian forms of relatedness Helen Lambert
5. Kindreds and descent groups: new perspectives from Madagascar Rita Astuti
6. How Karembola men become mothers Karen Middleton
7. 'He used to be my relative': exploring the bases of relatedness among Iñupiat of northern Alaska Barbara Bodenhorn
8. Including our own Jeanette Edwards and Marilyn Strathern
9. Figures of relations: reconnecting kinship studies and museum collections Mary Bouquet
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