Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of KinshipJanet Carsten 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." Examining the idioms of relatedness in other societies, and ways in which relationship is symbolized and interpreted in our own society, this book challenges established analytic categories of anthropology, and brings into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship. |
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Contents
Chinese patriliny and the cycles of yang and laiwang | 37 |
the broadening bases of relatedness | 55 |
Sentiment and substance in North Indian forms of relatedness | 73 |
new perspectives from | 90 |
How Karembola men become mothers | 104 |
exploring the bases of relatedness | 128 |
Including our own | 149 |
reconnecting kinship studies | 167 |
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Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship Janet Carsten No preview available - 2000 |
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