After Kinship

by Janet Carsten

Book Overview

This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? What is the impact of recent studies of reproductive technologies, of gender, and of the social construction of science in the West? What significance does public anxiety about the family, or new family forms in the West have for anthropology's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521665701
• ISBN13: 9780521665704
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"