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Anthropologists use relations to study relations. This book explores the power, challenge and limitations of this approach to social life. In doing so it covers areas rarely brought together so compellingly. Here are debates in science and technology, new studies of kinship, and the effects of legal interventions. Each is concerned with the way in which relationships are taken into account , and there is much to learn here from what is made visible and what is overlooked. Through several accessible case histories, it draws equally from European / American materials and from societies in developing countries (especially Papua New Guinea).Strathern, Marilyn is the author of 'Kinship, Law And The Unexpected Relatives Are Always A Surprise', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521615099 and ISBN 0521615097.
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