Strathern Relations

An Anthropological Account
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0934-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of anthropology's key concept of relation and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world, showing how its evolving use over the last three centuries reflects changing thinking about knowledge-making and kin-making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strathern, Marilyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Introductions: The Compulsion of Relations 1
Part I
1. Experimentation, English and Otherwise 25
2. Registers of Comparison 45
Coda to Part I: Comparing Persons Again 69
Part II
3. Expansion and Contradiction 73
4. The Dissimilar and the Different 97
Coda to Part II: Preparation 117
Part III.
5. Enlightenment Dramas 121
6. Kinship Unbound 143
Coda to Part III: Visibility 165
Conclusions: The Reinvention of Relations at Moments of Knowledge-Making 167
Notes 191
References 229
Index of Names 251
Index of Subjects 259

Über Autor(innen)

Marilyn Strathern is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and the author and editor of numerous books, including The Gender of the Gift; Partial Connections; and After Nature.