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Cultures of Relatedness

Janet Carsten
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      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'. These developments have prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms of relatedness in other societies, and to review the ways in which relationships are symbolised and interpreted in our own society. Defamiliarizing some classic cases, challenging the established analytic categories of anthropology, the contributors to this innovative book focus on the boundary between the 'biological' and the 'social', and bring into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Janet Carsten EAN: 9780521656276 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 340 g HEIGHT: 228 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-03-09 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

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      Social and cultural anthropology

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      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'. These developments have prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms of relatedness in other societies, and to review the ways in which relationships are symbolised and interpreted in our own society. Defamiliarizing some classic cases, challenging the established analytic categories of anthropology, the contributors to this innovative book focus on the boundary between the 'biological' and the 'social', and bring into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Janet Carsten EAN: 9780521656276 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 340 g HEIGHT: 228 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-03-09 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

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      Social and cultural anthropology

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