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Title:

AFTER NATURE
ENGLISH KINSHIP IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

By:

Marilyn Strathern

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521426804

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9780521426800

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

12 March, 1992

Series:

Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series

Pages:

260

Description:

After Nature is a timely account of fundamental constructs in English kinship at a moment when advances in reproductive technologies are raising questions about the natural basis of kinship relations.

Synopsis:

Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultural context. Based on the Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester in 1989, After Nature challenges the traditional separation of western kinship studies from the study of society. Marilyn Strathern looks back at mid-century writings on kinship, both within anthropology and outside, and demonstrates continuities between middle-class folk models of kinship and anthropological kinship theory. She also shows how conceptualisations of change have enabled that past world to produce the present one. The values placed upon individual choice, as well as the vanishing of 'society' as a self-evident point of reference, are part of an evolving cultural explicitness about kinship and the naturalness of connections between persons. After Nature is a timely reflection at a moment when advances in reproductive technology raise questions about the natural basis of kinship relations.

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11 b/w illus.

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