Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies

by Sarah Franklin

Book Overview

The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822327961
• ISBN13: 9780822327967
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"