Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives Are Always a Surprise

Marilyn Strathern takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society--anthropologists using relationships to uncover relationships. The role of relations in western (Euro-American) knowledge practices, from the scientific revolution onwards, raises a question about the extent to which Euro-American kinship is the kinship of a knowledge-based society. This argument takes the reader through current issues in biotechnology, new family formations and legal interventions, as well as intellectual property debates, to matters of personhood and ownership afforded by material from Melanesia and elsewhere.

Author: Marilyn Strathern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.46w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780521615099

About the Author
Strathern, Marilyn: - Marilyn Strathern is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork over several years in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Melanesia). She is the author of several works including Kinship at the Core, After Nature and Property, Substance and Effect.

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