The heat of the hearth : the process of kinship in a Malay fishing community
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The heat of the hearth : the process of kinship in a Malay fishing community
（Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1997
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index
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ISBN 9780198280453
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In this text, the author offers a very personal investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience of life as a foster daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. She shows that Malay kinship is a process, not a state: it is determined partly by birth, but also throughout life by living together and sharing food. She provides the reader with an "anthropology of everyday life", including a compelling view of gender relations. She also urges reassessment of recent anthropological work on gender, and a new approach to the study of kinship.
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Janet Carsten offers a vivid and original investigation of nature and kinship in Malaysia, based on her own experience of life as a fister daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. Kinship relations are crucial to personal and social identity, and in Malaya culture identity is mutable and fluid: it is given at birth through ties of procreation, but is also aquired throughout life by living together and sharing food. The author shows that the heat of the
hearth is not only necessary for the cooking and sharing of food, but central to domestic life, including childbirth and reproduction. Kinship is a process not a state; people become kin largely through the everyday actions of women in and between the households. The incorporation and assimilation of
newcomers-`making kinship'-is central to the social reproduction of village communities; domestic life is thus central to the political process.
Janet Carsten gives the reader a fascinating `anthropology of everyday life', including a compelling view of gender relations; she urges reassessment of recent anthropological work on gender, and a new approach to the study of kinship.
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