Overview
What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been 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 and desire.
Full Product Details
Author: James Faubion ,
Carolyn Babula ,
Jamila Bargach ,
John Borneman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.508kg
ISBN: 9780742509559
ISBN 10: 0742509559
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 13 December 2001
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The much desired reawakening of interest by anthropologists in the topic of kinship, central to the history of their discipline, has depended on making coherent use of the outpouring of rich culture theories of recent years concerning the concept of the self, gender, issues of subjectivity, and finally, ethics. This compelling and highly readable volume of interwoven narratives and analyses not only sets the terms of this renaissance but also the kinds of debates by which it could be sustained. -- George Marcus, author of Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences The resulting collection is very welcome as it not only constitutes an interesting read in its own right but is also a contribution for the present renewal of debates in the anthropology of kinship. -- Joao de Pina-Cabral, University of Lisbon Anthropological Quarterly Only a few collections exist to give readers an overview of this expanding subfield, and of these, none meld theory with autoethnography in the way undertaken by this collection. The Ethics of Kinship will make an original and provocative contribution to the growing literature on the new kinship studies. -- Kath Weston, Harvard University
The much desired reawakening of interest by anthropologists in the topic of kinship, central to the history of their discipline, has depended on making coherent use of the outpouring of rich culture theories of recent years concerning the concept of the self, gender, issues of subjectivity, and finally, ethics. This compelling and highly readable volume of interwoven narratives and analyses not only sets the terms of this renaissance but also the kinds of debates by which it could be sustained.--George Marcus
The resulting collection is very welcome as it not only constitutes an interesting read in its own right but is also a contribution for the present renewal of debates in the anthropology of kinship.--Joao de Pina-Cabral Anthropological Quarterly
Author Information
James Faubion is associate professor of anthropology at Rice University.
