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The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries

The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries

Faubion, James
Babula, Carolyn
Bargach, Jamila

Paperback

Series: Alterations, Book 1

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0742509567
ISBN13: 9780742509566
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Dec 14 2001
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his or her own alterity as the touchstone of the exploration of an ethnographically and historically specific ethics of kinship. Together, the chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of the entanglement of the subject of kinship with the subject of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, desire. The chapters speak eloquently to the sometimes liberating stories that we cannot help but keep telling about our kin and ourselves.

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