After kinship

After kinship / Janet Carsten.

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, pr...

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Main Author: Carsten, Janet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2004.
Series:New departures in anthropology.
Subjects:
Kinship.
Kin recognition.
kinship.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Kin recognition
Kinship
Anthropologie
Verwandtschaft
Verwantschap.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780511194139
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Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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