Constitutive Knowledge: Tracing Trajectories of Information in New Contexts of Relatedness From: Anthropological Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Carsten, Janet | Copyright Institute for Ethnographic Research Spring 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abstract

One much-commented upon feature of globalization is an increased access to information. If new kinds of information, and a new speed of access to it, characterize the so-called "global society, " then how do new kinds of kinship information and kinship knowledge affect Western practices of kinship, or a Western "sense of self?" Examining the place of certain kinds of knowledge in Western idioms and practices of relatedness and personhood, this paper explores the effects of new...

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