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The Ethics of Kinship - Ethnographic Inquiries (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,295
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The Ethics of Kinship - Ethnographic Inquiries (Paperback): James Faubion

The Ethics of Kinship - Ethnographic Inquiries (Paperback)

James Faubion; Contributions by Carolyn Babula, Jamila Bargach, John Borneman, Stanford Carpenter, Nityanand Deckha, James D. Faubion, Laurel George, Lamia Karim, Susan Ossman

Series: Alterations

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What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves--as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his or her own alterity as the touchstone of the exploration of an ethnographically and historically specific ethics of kinship. Together, the chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of the entanglement of the subject of kinship with the subject of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, desire. The chapters speak eloquently to the sometimes liberating stories that we cannot help but keep telling about our kin and ourselves.

General

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Series: Alterations
Release date: December 2001
First published: December 2001
Authors: James Faubion
Contributors: Carolyn Babula • Jamila Bargach • John Borneman • Stanford Carpenter • Nityanand Deckha • James D. Faubion • Laurel George • Lamia Karim • Susan Ossman
Dimensions: 229 x 154 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-0956-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN: 0-7425-0956-7
Barcode: 9780742509566

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