The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how
anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives
they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern
provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and
significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's
changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries,
Strathern shows how the historical idiosyncrasy of using an
epistemological term for kinspersons ("relatives") was bound up
with evolving ideas about knowledge-making and kin-making. She
draws on philosophical debates about relation-such as Leibniz's
reaction to Locke-and what became its definitive place in
anthropological exposition, elucidating the underlying assumptions
and conventions of its use. She also calls for scholars in
anthropology and beyond to take up the limitations of Western
relational thinking, especially against the background of present
ecological crises and interest in multispecies relations. In
weaving together analyses of kin-making and knowledge-making,
Strathern opens up new ways of thinking about the contours of
epistemic and relational possibilities while questioning the limits
and potential of ethnographic methods.
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