Suckling

Kinship More Fluid
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-31519-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 423 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

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 kinship is necessarily biological, societal and cultural. The volume takes kinship study beyond origins, nature-culture debates, and social nurturing and relatedness, and challenges claims of deterministic, reductionist formulas.

As well as key reading for those involved in milk kinship research, this book is valuable for

anthropologists, Middle East scholars and others with an interest in breastfeeding, family and social organisation, and religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guindi, Fadwa El

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Conceptual Principles; 2. Genealogy of Dissent; 3. "He Who Begets Never Dies"; 4.‘Groin’, ‘Womb’, ‘Nerve’; 5. Overview of Milk Kinship; 6. What is Suckling; 7. "I Brothered Cousins and Siblinged my Son"; 8. The Cognitive Dance of Kinship

Über Autor(innen)

Fadwa El Guindi is Founding Director of El Nil Research. She is formerly a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Qatar University in Doha and is Retiree Anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.