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Vital Relations : Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship /

"For more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organizes simpler, "traditional," pre-state societies but not complex, "modern," state societies. And these theories have been unanimous in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McKinnon, Susan, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Fe : SAR Press, School for Advanced Research Press, [2013]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The difference kinship makes / Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell
  • Kinship within and beyond the "movement of progressive societies" / Susan McKinnon
  • Transnational family capitalism : producing "made in Italy" in China / Sylvia J. Yanagisako
  • "I am a petroleum product" : making kinship work on the Patagonian frontier / Elana Shever
  • Ghosts, commensality, and scuba diving : tracing kinship and sociality in clinical pathology labs and blood banks in Penang / Janet Carsten
  • On the road again : movement, marriage, mestizaje, and the race of kinship / Barbara Bodenhorn
  • "This body is our body" : Vishwakarma Puja, the social debts of kinship, and theories of materiality in a neoliberal shipyard / Laura Bear
  • Placing the dead : kinship, slavery, and free labor in pre- and post-Civil War America / Gillian Feeley-Harnik
  • The re-enchantment of kinship / Fenella Cannell
  • Kinship, modernity, and the immodern / Michael Lambek
  • Kinship and catastrophe : global warming and the rhetoric of descent / Danilyn Rutherford.