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SAR Press
- Vital Relations: Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: SAR Press
- Series: Advanced Seminar
summary
For more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organizes simpler, "traditional," pre-state societies but not complex, "modern," state societies. And they have been unanimous in their presupposition that within modern state-based societies kinship has been relegated to the domestic domain, has lost its economic and political functions, has retained no organizing force in modern political and economic structures and processes, and has become secularized and rationalized. Vital Relations challenges these presuppositions.
Table of Contents
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- 1. The Difference Kinship Makes
- pp. 14-49
- 3. Transnational Family Capitalism
- pp. 74-95
- 4. “I Am a Petroleum Product”
- pp. 96-119
- 5. Ghosts, Commensality, and Scuba Diving
- pp. 120-141
- 6. On the Road Again
- pp. 142-165
- 7. “This Body Is Our Body”
- pp. 166-189
- 8. Placing the Dead
- pp. 190-227
- 9. The Re-enchantment of Kinship
- pp. 228-251
- 10. Kinship, Modernity, and the Immodern
- pp. 252-271
- 11. Kinship and Catastrophe
- pp. 272-293
- References
- pp. 294-337
- Other titles in the Advanced Seminar Series
- pp. 352-356
- Participants
- p. 357
Additional Information
ISBN
9781938645068
Related ISBN(s)
9781938645013
MARC Record
OCLC
927384784
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No