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Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship

Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship

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AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 052165193X
ISBN13: 9780521651936
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 9 2000
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. Examining the idioms of relatedness in other societies, and ways in which relationship is symbolized and interpreted in our own society, this book challenges established analytic categories of anthropology, and brings into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.

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