How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical
constructs and generalities about social existence? Kinship, Law
and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of studies of
society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships.
Relationality is a phenomenon at once contingent (on certain ways
of knowing) and ubiquitous (to social life). The role of relations
in western (Euro-American) knowledge practices, from the scientific
revolution onwards, raises a question about the extent to which
Euro-American kinship is the kinship of a knowledge-based society.
The argument takes the reader through current issues in
biotechnology, new family formations and legal interventions, and
intellectual property debates, to matters of personhood and
ownership afforded by material from Melanesia and elsewhere. If we
are often surprised by what our relatives do, we may also be
surprised by what relations tells us about the world we live in.
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