Relations : an anthropological account

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Relations : an anthropological account

Marilyn Strathern

Duke University Press, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and indexes

Summary: "In RELATIONS, Marilyn Strathern offers a deep and sustained analysis of the concept "relations." Strathern traces the English language use of the term through the centuries, showing that up until the eighteenth century, relations had been limited to describing logic and epistemology and had not been used as a reference to kin (or any other social relations). As Strathern traces the historical shift and the way this reflected emerging ideas about learning and new forms of kinship, she also weaves analysis relating to knowledge-making, comparison, and social science criticism. Strathern explores these themes in eight chapters, each with their own substantive focus, but which when read together offer diverse yet interconnected reflections on the theoretical expansiveness of the concept. In weaving together analysis of kin-making and knowledge-making, she opens up new ways of thinking about the contours (and limits) of epistemic and relational possibilities of the English-speaking world.

収録内容

  • Introductions: The compulsion of relations
  • Experimentations, English and otherwise
  • Registers of comparison
  • Coda to part I: Comparing persons again
  • Expansion and contraction
  • The dissimilar and the different
  • Coda to part II: Preparation
  • Enlightenment dramas
  • Kinship unbound
  • Coda to part III: Visibility
  • Conclusions: The re-invention of relation at moments of knowledge-making

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内容説明

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.

目次

Preface ix Introductions: The Compulsion of Relations 1 Part I 1. Experimentation, English and Otherwise 25 2. Registers of Comparison 45 Coda to Part I: Comparing Persons Again 69 Part II 3. Expansion and Contradiction 73 4. The Dissimilar and the Different 97 Coda to Part II: Preparation 117 Part III. 5. Enlightenment Dramas 121 6. Kinship Unbound 143 Coda to Part III: Visibility 165 Conclusions: The Reinvention of Relations at Moments of Knowledge-Making 167 Notes 191 References 229 Index of Names 251 Index of Subjects 259

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