Relative Values
Subtitle: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
Contributors: Melbourne Tapper (Contributor); Sarah Franklin (Editor); Susan McKinnon (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9780822327868
Subjects: Kinship; Sociology - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology - Social Theory; Anthropology/Ethnography; Science Studies
Description: The essays in this volume offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. The contributors chart a new future for kinship studies, addressing topics that range from the commodification of kinship through to trans-national adoption.