The content derives from the British Academy’s public lecture programme which presents specialist... more The content derives from the British Academy’s public lecture programme which presents specialist research in an accessible manner. The papers range in subject matter over anthropology, literature, psychology, history and linguistics, demonstrating the depth and breadth of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that the British Academy champions.
How, as anthropologists, should we be talking about kinship? Adam Kuper (2018) has recently asser... more How, as anthropologists, should we be talking about kinship? Adam Kuper (2018) has recently asserted that 'remarkably few anthropologists' are doing so at all-or doing so in a way that he recognises. It is certain that, over the decades, the terms of the conversation have changed. This change can be traced not just to the influence of David Schneider and Marshall Sahlins, whom Kuper cites, but, amongst other disciplinary shifts, to more than forty years of feminist scholarship in anthropology, which has recentered the conversation on the messy, mundane ways kinship is made and experienced. While we agree that kinship merits a higher profile in contemporary anthropological research, in this light, the reasons Kuper gives for its marginalisation seem curious. By way of a rejoinder, we report in this article on an ongoing programme of research into global transformations of marriage, currently being undertaken in five geographically disparate and socially distinct contexts. [1] Please join our mailing list to receive notification of new issues
Contributors. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University of Ed... more Contributors. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). 2. Ruins and Ghosts: The Domestic Uncanny and the Materialization of Anglo-Indian Genealogies in Kharagpur: Laura Bear (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3. Enlivened Memories: Recalling Absence and Loss in Mongolia: Rebecca Empson (University of Cambridge). 4. Connections and Disconnections of Memory and Kinship in Narratives of Adoption Reunions in Scotland: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). 5. Memories of Movement and the Stillness of Place: Kinship Memory in the Polish Highlands: Frances Pine (Goldsmiths College, University of London). 6. Moving on? Generating Homes in the Future for Displaced Northern Muslims in Sri Lanka: Sharika Thiranagama (University of Edinburgh). 7. Belonging to What? Jewish Mixed Kinship and Historical Disruption in Twentieth-Century Europe: Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics and Political Science). 8. Threading T...
The content derives from the British Academy’s public lecture programme which presents specialist... more The content derives from the British Academy’s public lecture programme which presents specialist research in an accessible manner. The papers range in subject matter over anthropology, literature, psychology, history and linguistics, demonstrating the depth and breadth of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that the British Academy champions.
How, as anthropologists, should we be talking about kinship? Adam Kuper (2018) has recently asser... more How, as anthropologists, should we be talking about kinship? Adam Kuper (2018) has recently asserted that 'remarkably few anthropologists' are doing so at all-or doing so in a way that he recognises. It is certain that, over the decades, the terms of the conversation have changed. This change can be traced not just to the influence of David Schneider and Marshall Sahlins, whom Kuper cites, but, amongst other disciplinary shifts, to more than forty years of feminist scholarship in anthropology, which has recentered the conversation on the messy, mundane ways kinship is made and experienced. While we agree that kinship merits a higher profile in contemporary anthropological research, in this light, the reasons Kuper gives for its marginalisation seem curious. By way of a rejoinder, we report in this article on an ongoing programme of research into global transformations of marriage, currently being undertaken in five geographically disparate and socially distinct contexts. [1] Please join our mailing list to receive notification of new issues
Contributors. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University of Ed... more Contributors. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). 2. Ruins and Ghosts: The Domestic Uncanny and the Materialization of Anglo-Indian Genealogies in Kharagpur: Laura Bear (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3. Enlivened Memories: Recalling Absence and Loss in Mongolia: Rebecca Empson (University of Cambridge). 4. Connections and Disconnections of Memory and Kinship in Narratives of Adoption Reunions in Scotland: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). 5. Memories of Movement and the Stillness of Place: Kinship Memory in the Polish Highlands: Frances Pine (Goldsmiths College, University of London). 6. Moving on? Generating Homes in the Future for Displaced Northern Muslims in Sri Lanka: Sharika Thiranagama (University of Edinburgh). 7. Belonging to What? Jewish Mixed Kinship and Historical Disruption in Twentieth-Century Europe: Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics and Political Science). 8. Threading T...
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