Reconnecting State and Kinship - Image 1

£43.14

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications Reconnecting State and Kinship

Name: 1428334726
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Price: 45.15 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price data checked 6 days ago

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 85 days • 85 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 85 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £43 (50 days, 58.8%)

Price range: £43 - £45

Price levels: 3 different prices over 85 days

Description

Within the social sciences, kinship and statehood are often seen as two distinct modes of social organization, sometimes conceived of as following each other in a temporal line and sometimes as operating on different scales. Kinship is traditionally associated with small-scale communities in stateless societies. The state, meanwhile, is viewed as a development away from kinship as political order toward rational, impersonal, and functional forms of rule. In recent decades, theoretical and empirical scholarship has challenged these notions, but the underlying presumption of a deep-rooted opposition between kinship and the (modern) state has remained surprisingly stable. That this binary is so deeply engrained in Western self-understanding and knowledge production poses a considerable challenge to decoding their coproduction. Reconnecting State and Kinship seeks to trace the historical shifts and boundary work implied in the ongoing reproduction of these supposedly discrete or even opposing units of analysis. Contributors ask whether concepts associated with one sphere —including corruption, patronage, lineage, and incest—surface in the other. Policies and interventions modeled upon the assumed polarity can have lasting consequences for mechanisms of marginalization and exclusion, including decisions about life and death. Reconnecting State and Kinship not only explores the boundary-related and classificatory practices that reinforce the kinship/statehood binary but also tracks the traveling of these concepts and their underlying norms through time and space ultimately demonstrating the ways that kinship and "the state" are intertwined. Contributors: Erdmute Alber, Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Helle Bundgaard, Jeanette Edwards, Karen Fog Olwig, Victoria Goddard, Michael Herzfeld, Eirini Papadaki, Frances Pine, Ivan Rajković, Tatjana Thelen, Thomas Zitelmann.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0812249518
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2017
Listed Since: 14 March 2017

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications Reconnecting State and Kinship

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships

Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities

Ethnicity and the State: Political and Legal Anthropology (Political & Legal Anthropology Series)

Close Relations: Family, Kinship, and Beyond (Crossroads of Knowledge)

The Anthropology of the State: A Reader: 9 (Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology)

Boundaries within: Nation, Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities (IMISCOE Research Series)

New Directions in Spiritual Kinship: Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

Bringing the State Back In

State Formation and Political Legitimacy (POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY)

The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power

The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships

Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval

Structures on the Move: Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter: 2 (Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context)

Cambridge Handbook of Kinship - Anthropology Handbook

Dividends of Kinship - Routledge Social Anthropology Book

Routledge Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures

American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History (Material Texts)

State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault

From House Societies to States: Early Political Organisation, From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: 3 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS))

Everyday Life and the State by Routledge - Sociology Book

Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America

Stating the Family: New Directions in the Study of American Politics

Kinship in Action: Self and Group

Borders and Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness