Suckling: Kinship More Fluid

by Fadwa El Guindi

Book Overview

A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf, this book reenergises the study of kinship. It analyses the misunderstood and marginalized phenomenon of suckling drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Qatar over a seven-year period.

Fadwa El Guindi situates suckling (often given other names or subsumed under misleading classifications) squarely in the analytical category of kinship, with recognition that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032174021
• ISBN13: 9781032174020
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"