Jeanette Edwards - Böcker

The study of kinship is undergoing a renaissance in social anthropology. A reflexive scrutiny of the enterprise of anthropology itself has led to questions about the cultural premisses that social anthropologists bring to the study of kinship in s...

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A fresh look at the balance of responsibilities and control in care-giving, in both the public and private spheres. Using previously unpublished empirical data, contributors focus on male experiences of welfare services.

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A fresh look at the balance of responsibilities and control in care-giving, both in the public and private spheres. Using previously unpublished empirical data, contributors focus on male experiences of welfare services.

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Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

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Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

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Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed the new kinship, this interest was stimulated by the new genetics and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates...

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What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic e...

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What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic e...

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This collection of original essays provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration of the scholarship of eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern. A distinguished team of international contributors, all former stud...

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Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

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Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This collection of original essays provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration of the scholarship of eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern. A distinguished team of international contributors, all former stud...

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This collection of original essays provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration of the scholarship of eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern. A distinguished team of international contributors, all former stud...

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What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic e...

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What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic e...

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Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed the new kinship, this interest was stimulated by the new genetics and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates...

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The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies a...

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The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data – brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New techno...

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Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ?the new kinship?, this interest was stimulated by the ?new genetics? and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investig...

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Border of Lights, a volunteer collective, returns each October to Dominican-Haitian border towns to bear witness to the 1937 Haitian Massacre ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Leâonidas Trujillo. This crime against humanity has never been ackno...

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