Relations : an anthropological account
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Relations : an anthropological account
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.
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- 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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