ISBN:
9780521661980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (232 p.)
Series Statement:
New Departures in Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Print version After Kinship
DDC:
306.83
Keywords:
Kinship
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? Janet Carsten gives an approachable and original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology, which will be of interest not just to anthropologists but to social scientists generally
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Introduction: After Kinship?; TWO Houses of Memory and Kinship; THREE Gender, Bodies, and Kinship; FOUR The Person; FIVE Uses and Abuses of Substance; SIX Families into Nation: The Power of Metaphor and the Transformation of Kinship; SEVEN Assisted Reproduction; EIGHT Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
