Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh)

After Kinship

Herausgeber: Harris, Olivia J.; Lambek, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? 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.

Produktdetails

• New Departures in Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1357482
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780521665704
• ISBN-10: 0521665701
• Artikelnr.: 20887050

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

'In this creative book, Janet Carsten unsettles and reorients our traditional ideas about kinship. Through her deep understanding of kinship theory and comparative eye, we see kinship as it is made in shared experience, and interwoven with concepts of the house, person, gender, nationality, and new technologies. Kinship studies may once again become the heart of anthropology. After Carsten, they will never be the same.' Stephen Gudeman, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences