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Janet Carsten Offers An Original And Very Personal Investigation Of The Nature Of Kinship In Malaysia, Based Upon Her Own Experience 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. 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--publisher Description. Pt. 1. Inside The House. 1. The House. 2. The Production Of Children: House Cycles And Life Cycles. 3. Bodies Within Bodies: The House And The Sibling Group. 4. The Substance Of Kinship And The Heat Of The Hearth -- Pt. 2. Outside The House. 5. The World Outside. 6. Between Houses: Visiting, Eating, And Feasting. 7. The Incorporation Of Difference: Marriage. 8. Producing Similarity: Affinity And The Sharing Of Grandchildren. 9. Coercive Incorporation: The Historical Construction Of Community. Janet Carsten. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author

Carsten, Janet

Publisher

Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781383017052

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social_sciences