Critical Kinship Studies: An Introduction to the Field

by Elizabeth Peel and Damien W. Riggs

Book Overview

This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship practices. Studies of kinship have increasingly sought to critique the normative assumptions that often underpin how caring relationships between humans are understood. The categorisation of 'human' and 'kinship' is brought into question and this book examines who might be excluded through adherence to accepted categories and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349700517
• ISBN13: 9781349700516
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"