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Samenvatting Carsten - After Kinship

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After Kinship

Summary study book After Kinship of Janet Carsten - ISBN: 9780521665704 (9 pagina's.)

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kinship
memory
house
gender
bodies
the person
families
metaphor
assisted reproduction

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Samenvatting After Kinship – Janet Carsten

Chapter I – Introduction: After Kinship?
 To what extend is kinship part of the pregiven, natural order of things and the extent to which
it is shaped by human engagement. What is “natural” and what is “cultural”?
o Kinship is often treated with a distinction between “social” and “biological” kinship.
o Technological developments are bringing this separation more and more together.
 What happened to kinship? Most familiar concepts of kinship are starting to change.
o What new and sometimes bizarre development influence kinship?
o By which analytic instruments may these developments be understood?
 At the same time kinship disappeared in the background in the 70’s and 80’s.
 This book tries to restore the focus, as well as shift it to the dimension of the lived experience.
o Kinship is “made”, people invest their emotions and creative energy into it.

Kinship in the Mid-Twentieth Century: British descent versus French alliance
 Malinowski & Fortes: nuclear family as universal social institution is necessary for childrearing.
o Domestic: intimate world of individual families.
o Politicojural: public roles ordered by wider kinship relations.
 Lineage based societies where the kin group holds property power resides with the elders.
o This ties politics and religion closely to kinship and thereby to succession in office.
 This caused early kinship studies to resist the intimate and emotional domestic arrangements.
o This meant that women were often excluded from anthropological studies.
 They focussed on unilineal kinship systems: matrilineality or patrilineality.
o Lineage formed a central organizing feature as property-owning and jural unit.
o This approach was strictly an analytical approach, it didn’t reflect the reality.

 Lévi-Strauss: a grand theory on the development of human culture through kinship.
o He mainly looked at the logic of culture instead of actual practices.
 There exist social rules that determine who’s legitimately marriageable.
o That there are rules on incest is universal, but the actual content can vary.
o This puts exogamous marriage at the core, maintaining relations between groups.
 Here also men are the ones that give the supreme gift of women (objectification) while in
reality women often play an important role in marriage arrangements.
 With structuralism this resulted in too much focus on paired oppositions.

 This created a debate between descent and alliance theories.
 In both cases kinship terms were described in highly normative terms, especially about women.
 Other disciplines at the same time mostly ignored kinship in Western societies, which led to a
clear anthropological distinction between “our” families and “their” kinship.

Points of departure
 There is little that can be taken for granted regarding kinship. The Western model of nuclear
families, late marriage and celibacy forms a rare exception in the history of mankind.
 Relations used to end often by death making marriage short-lived, and rituals focus on forgetting.
 Schneider: criticized anthropological approach to kinship by focusing on social structure.
o He sees a relationship between the biological and social aspect of kinship.
o This might end kinship research or shift the focus to culture and symbolic systems.

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