Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been
transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender
relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer
take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships
are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature'. These developments have
prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms of
relatedness in other societies, and to review the ways in which
relationships are symbolised and interpreted in our own society.
Defamiliarizing some classic cases, challenging the established
analytic categories of anthropology, the contributors to this
innovative book focus on the boundary between the 'biological' and
the 'social', and bring into question the received wisdom at the
heart of the study of kinship.
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