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The Heat of the Hearth - The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community (Paperback)
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The Heat of the Hearth - The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Janet Carsten offers a vivid and original investigation of nature
and kinship in Malaysia, based on her own experience of life as a
fister daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. Kinship
relations are crucial to personal and social identity, and in
Malaya culture identity is mutable and fluid: it is given at birth
through ties of procreation, but is also aquired throughout life by
living together and sharing food. The author shows that the heat of
the hearth is not only necessary for the cooking and sharing of
food, but central to domestic life, including childbirth and
reproduction. Kinship is a process not a state; people become kin
largely through the everyday actions of women in and between the
households. The incorporation and assimilation of newcomers-`making
kinship'-is central to the social reproduction of village
communities; domestic life is thus central to the political
process. Janet Carsten gives the reader a fascinating `anthropology
of everyday life', including a compelling view of gender relations;
she urges reassessment of recent anthropological work on gender,
and a new approach to the study of kinship.
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