Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 274 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781478009344
Content:
The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries, Strathern shows how the historical idiosyncrasy of using an epistemological term for kinspersons ("relatives") was bound up with evolving ideas about knowledge-making and kin-making. She draws on philosophical debates about relation-such as Leibniz's reaction to Locke-and what became its definitive place in anthropological exposition, elucidating the underlying assumptions and conventions of its use. She also calls for scholars in anthropology and beyond to take up the limitations of Western relational thinking, especially against the background of present ecological crises and interest in multispecies relations. In weaving together analyses of kin-making and knowledge-making, Strathern opens up new ways of thinking about the contours of epistemic and relational possibilities while questioning the limits and potential of ethnographic methods
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 9781478007845
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 9781478008354
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
General works
Keywords:
Verwandtschaft
;
Anthropologie
;
Ethnologie
DOI:
10.1215/9781478009344
DOI:
10.1515/9781478009344
URL:
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URL:
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Author information:
Strathern, Marilyn 1941-
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