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Vital Relations - Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship (Paperback)
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Vital Relations - Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship (Paperback)
Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
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What difference does kinship make to our conception of the
conditions of ""modernity""? Why should kinship matter in an
analysis of the ways Italian textile and clothing manufacturers
outsource the production of their fashion lines to China? How might
attention to kinship illuminate our understanding of the Argentine
nation-state and its oil industry? What does it mean that even
high-tech, scientific workplaces - like blood banks and pathology
labs in Penang, Malaysia - are thoroughly domesticated by relations
of kinship and marriage? Can Indian shipyard workers' ideas about
kinship, reproduction, and the divine tell us something unexpected
about the presumed secular nature of productive labour in the
global economy? How do Mormon understandings of kinship and
adoption help us reflect on mainstream Protestant and even
ostensibly secular ideas of kinship? What can kinship perspectives
add to current discussions on ""secular ethics"" and claims that we
are living in a modern ""secular age""? For more than 150 years,
theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been
unanimous in their assumption that kinship organises simpler,
""traditional,"" pre-state societies but not complex, ""modern,""
state societies. And they have been unanimous in their
presupposition that within modern state-based societies kinship has
been relegated to the domestic domain, has lost its economic and
political functions, has retained no organising force in modern
political and economic structures and processes, and has become
secularised and rationalised. Vital Relations challenges these
presuppositions. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to
gain a different perspective on the concept of modernity itself,
and on the place of kinship and ""family"" in modern life.
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Imprint: |
SAR Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series |
Release date: |
August 2013 |
Editors: |
Susan McKinnon
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
275 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-938645-01-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
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LSN: |
1-938645-01-4 |
Barcode: |
9781938645013 |
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