Cultures of Relatedness
New Approaches to the Study of Kinship
Edited by
Janet Carsten
University of Edinburgh
C a m b r id g e
U N IV E R S IT Y PRESS
BIBLIOTECA LUiS GONZALF
EL COLEGiO DE MIC'HO AC Aj
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
page vi
vii
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1 Introduction: cultures of relatedness
1
JANET CARSTEN
2
Chinese patriliny and the cycles oiyang and laiwang
37
CHARLES STAFFORD
3 Identity and substance: the broadening bases of relatedness
among the Nuer of southern Sudan
55
SHARON ELAINE H U T C H I N S O N
4
Sentiment and substance in North Indian forms of relatedness
73
H EL EN LAMBERT
5 Kindreds and descent groups: new perspectives from
Madagascar
90
RITA ASTUTI
6 How Karembola men become mothers
104
KAREN M ID D L E T O N
7 ‘He used to be my relative’: exploring the bases of relatedness
among Inupiat of northern Alaska
128
BARBARA B O D E N H O R N
8 Including our own
149
JEANETTE EDWARDS AND MARILYN STRATHERN
9 Figures of relations: reconnecting kinship studies and
museum collections
167
MARY BOUQUET
Bibliography
Index
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