Central as kinship has been to the development of British social
anthropology, this is an attempt by an anthropologist to situate
ideas about English kinship in a cultural context. Based on the
Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester in 1989, After
Nature challenges the traditional separation of western kinship
studies from the study of society. Marilyn Strathern looks back at
mid-century writings on kinship, both within anthropology and
outside, and demonstrates continuities between middle-class folk
models of kinship and anthropological kinship theory. She also
shows how conceptualisations of change have enabled that past world
to produce the present one. The values placed upon individual
choice, as well as the vanishing of society as a self-evident point
of reference, are part of an evolving cultural explicitness about
kinship and the naturalness of connections between persons. After
Nature is a reflection at a moment when advances in reproductive
technology raise questions about the natural basis of kinship
relations. The work is intended for advanced students of
anthropology, cultural studies, and women's studies.
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