Relations
An Anthropological Account
1st Edition
Published on 17. April 2020
288 pages
978-1-4780-0934-4 (ISBN)
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Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of anthropology's key concept of relation and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world, showing how its evolving use over the last three centuries reflects changing thinking about knowledge-making and kin-making.
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Marilyn Strathern is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and the author and editor of numerous books, including The Gender of the Gift; Partial Connections; and After Nature.
Content
Preface ix
Introductions: The Compulsion of Relations 1
Part I
1. Experimentation, English and Otherwise 25
2. Registers of Comparison 45
Coda to Part I: Comparing Persons Again 69
Part II
3. Expansion and Contradiction 73
4. The Dissimilar and the Different 97
Coda to Part II: Preparation 117
Part III.
5. Enlightenment Dramas 121
6. Kinship Unbound 143
Coda to Part III: Visibility 165
Conclusions: The Reinvention of Relations at Moments of Knowledge-Making 167
Notes 191
References 229
Index of Names 251
Index of Subjects 259
Introductions: The Compulsion of Relations 1
Part I
1. Experimentation, English and Otherwise 25
2. Registers of Comparison 45
Coda to Part I: Comparing Persons Again 69
Part II
3. Expansion and Contradiction 73
4. The Dissimilar and the Different 97
Coda to Part II: Preparation 117
Part III.
5. Enlightenment Dramas 121
6. Kinship Unbound 143
Coda to Part III: Visibility 165
Conclusions: The Reinvention of Relations at Moments of Knowledge-Making 167
Notes 191
References 229
Index of Names 251
Index of Subjects 259
