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Camille Robcis - The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France - 9780801451294 - V9780801451294
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The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France

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Description for The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; JHBK; JHMC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.

In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many as uniquely French, however, is the extent to which many of these discussions—whether in legislative chambers, courtrooms, or the mass media—have been conducted in the frequently abstract vocabularies of anthropology and psychoanalysis.

In this highly original book, Camille Robcis seeks to explain why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the family—and on ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451294
SKU
V9780801451294
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About Camille Robcis
Camille Robcis is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.

Reviews for The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
All in all, this is a superb book that brilliantly links two fields—intellectual history and the history of law and policy—normally kept separate. In particular, Robcis is to be congratulated for not reproducing what often seems the willful obscurity and grandstanding of Lacan and others. Most important of all, Robcis finds her way though two exceptionalclaims to universal validity—French republicanism, ... Read more

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