| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) |
| Series |
New departures in anthropology |
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New departures in anthropology.
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| Contents |
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 -- 8. Conclusion |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kinship.
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Kin recognition.
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kinship.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Kin recognition
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Kinship
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Anthropologie
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Verwandtschaft
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Verwantschap.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511194139 |
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0511194137 |
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9780521661980 |
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0521661986 |
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9780521665704 |
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0521665701 |
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0511195516 |
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9780511195518 |
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9780511800382 |
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051180038X |
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0511196172 |
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9780511196171 |
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9780511191992 |
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0511191995 |
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9780511194153 |
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0511194153 |
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1280477601 |
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9781280477607 |
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0511312598 |
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9780511312595 |
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1107142652 |
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9781107142657 |
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