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作者:本社 编出版社:Cambridge University Press出版时间:2005年10月
- 版 次:1
- 页 数:229
- 字 数:
- 印刷时间:2005年10月01日
- 开 本:32开
- 纸 张:胶版纸
- 包 装:平装
- 是否套装:否
- 国际标准书号ISBN:9780521615099
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.
? Casts kinship in an entirely new light ? Has interdisciplinary
appeal ? Demonstrates what it argues - works by example - uses
materials that asks questions - several accessible case studies
interesting in their own right
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