Global Kinship: Anthropology and the Politics of Knowing From: Anthropological Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Herzfeld, Michael | Copyright Institute for Ethnographic Research Spring 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Kinship has cast such a long shadow over anthropological analysis that students who have never confronted its more technical aspects still profess boredom with the topic and relief that they do not have to deal with it. But deal with it, surprisingly, they do-in a technically less demanding guise, to be sure-through the more fashionable medium of other topics that have become considerably more central to the discipline: nationalism, gender, warfare, bio-ethics, the ethnography of science, tra...

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