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028			_aSARAS Books _b;2/31,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;IN38130 _d;21/11/2018
082			_a306.83 CAR
100			_aJanet Carsten
245			_aAfter kinship _c/Janet Carsten
260			_aCambridge, UK _b: Cambridge University Press _c, ©2004
300			_axiii, 216 p. _c; 24 cm.
365			_b2339
505			_a1.Introduction :After Kinship? 2.Houses of Memory and Kinship 3.Gender,Bodies,and Kinship 4.The Person 5.Uses and Abuses of Substance 6.Families into Nation :The Power of Mataphor and transformation of Kinship 7.Assisted Reproduction 8.Conclusion.
520			_aThis innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? What is the impact of recent studies of reproductive technologies, of gender, and of the social construction of science in the West? What significance does public anxiety about the family, or new family forms in the West have for anthropology's analytic strategies? The study of kinship has rested on a distinction between the 'biological' and the 'social'. But recent technological developments have made this distinction no longer self-evident. What does this imply about the comparison of kinship institutions cross-culturally? Janet Carsten gives an approachable view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology, which will be of interest not just to anthropologists but to social scientists generally.
650			_aSocial sciences
655			_aCulture & institutions _bKin recognition
700			_aJanet Carsten
942			_cBOOK
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