Cultures of Relatedness Ne Approaches to the Study of Kinship [Paperback]

Anthropologists on 'relatedness', transformed by changes in marriage arrangements, gender relations and new reproductive technologies.Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature'. Examining the idioms of relatedness in other societies, and ways in which relationship is symbolised and interpreted in our own society, this book challenges established analytic categories of anthropology, and bring into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature'. Examining the idioms of relatedness in other societies, and ways in which relationship is symbolised and interpreted in our own society, this book challenges established analytic categories of anthropology, and bring into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in biology or nature. Examining the idioms of relatedness in other societies, and ways in which relationship is symbolized and interpreted in our own society, this book challenges established analytic categories of anthropology, and brings into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: cultures of relatednel#i