Vital Relations by Susan Mckinnon
What difference does kinship make to our conception of the conditions of ""modernity""? Why should kinship matter in an analysis of the ways Italian textile and clothing manufacturers outsource the production of their fashion lines to China? How might attention to kinship illuminate our understanding of the Argentine nation-state and its oil industry? What does it mean that even high-tech, scientific workplaces - like blood banks and pathology labs in Penang, Malaysia - are thoroughly domesticated by relations of kinship and marriage? Can Indian shipyard workers' ideas about kinship, reproduction, and the divine tell us something unexpected about the presumed secular nature of productive labour in the global economy? How do Mormon understandings of kinship and adoption help us reflect on mainstream Protestant and even ostensibly secular ideas of kinship? What can kinship perspectives add to current discussions on ""secular ethics"" and claims that we are living in a modern ""secular age""?For more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organises simpler, ""traditional,"" pre-state societies but not complex, ""modern,"" state societies. And they have been unanimous in their presupposition that within modern state-based societies kinship has been relegated to the domestic domain, has lost its economic and political functions, has retained no organising force in modern political and economic structures and processes, and has become secularised and rationalised. Vital Relations challenges these presuppositions. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a different perspective on the concept of modernity itself, and on the place of kinship and ""family"" in modern life.
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Senses of Place
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Global Health in Times of Violence
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Dreaming
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Forces of Compassion
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Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market
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Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability
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Childhood
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Imperial Formations
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Linking the Histories of Slavery
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Gray Areas
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The Empire of Things
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Nature, Science and Religion
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Historical Ecology
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Walling in and Walling Out
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Regimes of Language
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Timely Assets
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Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management
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American Arrivals
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Cyborgs & Citadels
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Designs and Anthropologies
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The Evolution of Human Life History
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Democracy
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The Global Middle Classes
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Street Economies in the Urban Global South
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Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors
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Anthropology in the Margins of the State
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History in Person
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Making Alternative Histories
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Indians & Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest
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The Gender of Globalization
McKinnon, Susan: - Susan McKinnon is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands and coeditor of Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture, published by the University of Chicago Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781938645013 |
| ISBN 10 | 1938645014 |
| Title | Vital Relations |
| Author | Susan Mckinnon |
| Series | School For Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAR Press |
| Year published | 2013-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 275 |
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