Marilyn Strathern

Relations

An Anthropological Account

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Produktbeschreibung

Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of anthropology's key concept of relation and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world, showing how its evolving use over the last three centuries reflects changing thinking about knowledge-making and kin-making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007845
• ISBN-10: 1478007842
• Artikelnr.: 57571840

Autorenporträt

Marilyn Strathern is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and the author and editor of numerous books, including The Gender of the Gift; Partial Connections; and After Nature.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introductions: The Compulsion of Relations  1
Part I
1. Experimentation, English and Otherwise  25
2. Registers of Comparison  45
Coda to Part I: Comparing Persons Again  69
Part II
3. Expansion and Contradiction  73
4. The Dissimilar and the Different  97
Coda to Part II: Preparation  117
Part III.
5. Enlightenment Dramas  121
6. Kinship Unbound  143
Coda to Part III: Visibility  165
Conclusions: The Reinvention of Relations at Moments of Knowledge-Making 
167
Notes  191
References  229
Index of Names  251
Index of Subjects  259