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Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
Edited By S Franklin
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Description for Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
paperback. Has kinship become more structureless, commodified, and flexible in the global era? Do such representations overlook the "diffuse, enduring ties" that kinship has long signified? What has been the effect of contemporary bio-politics on kinship practices and theories? This title deals with these questions. Editor(s): Franklin, Sarah; McKinnon, Susan. Num Pages: 536 pages, 11 b&w photos, 1 table, 6 maps, 15 figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 828.
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a group of internationally recognized scholars—examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied a central place within the discipline of anthropology and moving beyond them.
Ideas about kinship are vital not only to understanding but also to forming many of the practices and innovations of contemporary society. How ... Read more
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a group of internationally recognized scholars—examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied a central place within the discipline of anthropology and moving beyond them.
Ideas about kinship are vital not only to understanding but also to forming many of the practices and innovations of contemporary society. How ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327967
SKU
V9780822327967
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About Edited By S Franklin
Sarah Franklin is Reader in Cultural Anthropology for the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, England. Susan McKinnon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
“This important collection of inter-disciplinary essays on the new kinship shows diverse ways that relative values, shifting solidarities, and partial connections of truth and affect today create the ties that bind.”—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley “This is one of the few books which crosses disciplinary terrains with clear and brilliant consequences. It not only brings anthropology into every sphere, ... Read more