After Nature
English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century
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Part of Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
- Author: Marilyn Strathern, University of Manchester
- Date Published: March 1992
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521426800
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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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' … her social critique, her commitment to environmental issues, and above all, her readiness to tackle all-encompassing and provocative themes, makes her book very stimulating reading.' The Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'This is an innovatory work - a cultural account of kinship in England has not previously been attempted. Undoubtedly a tour de force …' Sociology of Health and Illness
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- Date Published: March 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521426800
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 150 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.435kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: making explicit
1. Individuality and diversity
2. Analogies for a plural culture
3. The progress of polite society
4. Greenhouse effect
Recapitulation: nostalgia from a postplural world
Footnotes
References.
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