After kinship
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
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004
xiii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521661980, 9780521665704, 9780511194139, 0521661986, 0521665701, 0511194137
52288797
Introduction: After kinship?
Houses of memory and kinship
Gender, bodies, and kinship
The person
Uses and abuses of substance
Families into nation: the power of metaphor and the transformation of kinship
Assisted reproduction
Conclusion