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Article: Franklin, Sarah, and Susan McKinnon, eds. Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 2001. 519 pages. Paper, $21.95.
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies examines the historical importance of kinship as both a theoretical concept and social category within the social sciences, primarily anthropology. It does so by highlighting the problematic nature of the term, specifically in lieu of recent familial developments.
In Part I, "Substantial Codings: from Blood to Hypertext," Janet Carsten inquires into the use of "substance" in anthropological studies of kinship, a term that seems to have different uses when one moves from Western to Eastern societies. Gillian Feeley-Harnik then explores the ...