Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives Are Always a Surprise

by Marilyn Strathern

Book Overview

How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about social existence? Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships. Relationality is a phenomenon at once contingent (on certain ways of knowing) and ubiquitous (to social life). The role of relations in western (Euro-American) knowledge practices, from the scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521615097
• ISBN13: 9780521615099
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.9"