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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784420303321

Autore

Carsten Janet

Titolo

After kinship / / Janet Carsten [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14265-2

1-280-47760-1

0-511-80038-X

0-511-19551-6

0-511-19617-2

0-511-19413-7

0-511-31259-8

0-511-19415-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New departures in anthropology

Disciplina

306.83

Soggetti

Kinship

Kin recognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: After Kinship? -- 2. Houses of Memory and Kinship -- 3. Gender, Bodies, and Kinship -- 4. The Person -- 5. Uses and Abuses of Substance -- 6. Families into Nation: The Power of Metaphor and the Transformation of Kinship -- 7. Assisted Reproduction -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? What is the impact of recent studies of reproductive technologies, of gender, and of the social construction of science in the West? What significance does public anxiety about the family, or new family forms in the West have for anthropology's analytic strategies? The study of kinship has rested on a distinction between the 'biological' and the 'social'. But recent technological developments have made this distinction no longer self-evident. What does this imply about the



comparison of kinship institutions cross-culturally? Janet Carsten gives an approachable 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.