After Kinship

ISBN-13: 9780521665704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 232 str.

Janet Carsten

Opis

What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology's analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology which will be of interest to anthropologists as well as to other social scientists.

Recenzje

'… the book provides students with good examples for the variable, local meanings of kinship …' Social Anthropology

Spis treści

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.