Review of After Kinship

Document Type

Book Review

Department or Administrative Unit

Anthropology and Museum Studies

Publication Date

12-2005

Abstract

After Kinship is a crucial contribution to the paradigm shift in anthropological analyses of kinship, initiated most prominently in the work of David Schneider and Marilyn Strathern. Janet Carsten connects contemporary issues in kinship to discussions of house, person, gender, substance, and new reproductive technologies: discussions that have largely supplanted kinship in anthropology for the past several decades. In doing so, she develops new ground for studying kinship and relatedness by questioning and moving beyond a series of limiting dichotomies: nature–culture, biological–social, substance–code, and the reigning distinctions between Western and non-Western societies.

Comments

This article was originally published in American Anthropologist. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

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Journal

American Anthropologist

Rights

© American Anthropological Association

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