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The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries

by James Faubion
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780742509566
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 49.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 434 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his or her own alterity as the touchstone of the exploration of an ethnographically and historically specific ethics of kinship. Together, the chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of the entanglement of the subject of kinship with the subject of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, desire. The chapters speak eloquently to the sometimes liberating stories that we cannot help but keep telling about our kin and ourselves.

Borneman, John: - John Borneman is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany and Central Europe, and in Lebanon and Syria. His research focuses on two sets of relationships: on the relation of the state and law to intimacy and practices of care; and on the relation of political identification, belonging, and authority to forms of justice, accountability, and regime change. He also works on questions of epistemology and knowledge in the public sphere, and on psychoanalytic understandings of the self, group formation, and political form. Professor Borneman teaches courses on the self, intersubjectivity, revolution, memory, and social theory.

Faubion, James: -

James Faubion is at Rice University, USA.

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