After Kinship /

What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology's analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present...

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Autor principal: Carsten, Janet
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: New York Cambridge University Press 2004
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Sumario:What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology's analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology which will be of interest to anthropologists as well as to other social scientists.
Descripción Física:xiii, 216 p.
Público:Campos de la antropología I
ISBN:9780521665704