After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century

by Marilyn Strathern

Book Overview

Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultural context. Based on the Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester in 1989, After Nature challenges the traditional separation of western kinship studies from the study of society. Marilyn Strathern looks back at mid-century writings on kinship, both within anthropology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521426804
• ISBN13: 9780521426800
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"