Suckling: Kinship More Fluid

ISBN-13: 9781032174020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Fadwa El Guindi

Opis

A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf , this book reenergises the study of kinship. It analyses the misunderstood and marginalized phenomenon of suckling drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Qatar over a seven-year period.

 

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Spis treści

1. Conceptual Principles;  2. Genealogy of Dissent;  3. "He Who Begets Never Dies";  4.‘Groin’, ‘Womb’, ‘Nerve’;  5. Overview of Milk Kinship;  6. What is Suckling;  7. "I Brothered Cousins and Siblinged my Son";  8. The Cognitive Dance of Kinship

O autorze

Fadwa El Guindi is Founding Director of El Nil Research. She is formerly a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Qatar University in Doha and is Retiree Anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.