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Kinship, law and the unexpected : = relatives are always a surprise /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Kinship, law and the unexpected :/ Marilyn Strathern.
Reminder of title:	relatives are always a surprise /
remainder title:	Kinship, Law & the Unexpected
Author:	Strathern, Marilyn,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 229 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Kinship. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614514
ISBN:	9780511614514 (ebook)

Kinship, law and the unexpected : = relatives are always a surprise /
Strathern, Marilyn,

Kinship, law and the unexpected :relatives are always a surprise /Kinship, Law & the UnexpectedMarilyn Strathern. - 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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 revolution onwards, raises a question about the extent to which Euro-American kinship is the kinship of a knowledge-based society. The argument takes the reader through current issues in biotechnology, new family formations and legal interventions, and intellectual property debates, to matters of personhood and ownership afforded by material from Melanesia and elsewhere. If we are often surprised by what our relatives do, we may also be surprised by what relations tells us about the world we live in.

ISBN: 9780511614514 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

679036
Kinship.

LC Class. No.: GN487 / .S767 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 306.83

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