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Kissing Cousins : A New Kinship Bestiary by Bartkowski, Frances is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Kissing Cousins : A New Kinship Bestiary about?
"Focusing on narratives of kinship as they are defined in contemporary film, literature, and news media, Frances Bartkowski discusses the impact of "stories of origin" on our regard for nonhuman species. She locates the role of "totems and taboos" in forming and re-forming kinship categories-groupings that enable us to tie the personal to the social-and explores the bestiary, among the oldest of literary forms. The bestiary is the realm in which we allegorize the place of humans and other specie
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bartkowski, Frances
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231144520
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Nature, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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