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• W2036967560 abstract "Reviewed by: After Kinship Anthony T. Carter Janet Carsten , After Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 230 pp. In 1995, in Nottinghamshire, England, Diane Blood is involved in a dispute with British regulatory agencies and the courts over her efforts to conceive a child with sperm obtained from her dying husband without his prior written consent. In Israel, in the 1990s, the orthodox rabbinate debate how and from whom sperm for artificial insemination may be obtained, what is the relationship between a sperm donor and a child conceived with his sperm, and what is the status of a child so conceived. In Scotland, in 1993, Anna, a married woman in her thirties who was adopted as an infant, is preparing for her first meeting with her birth mother. In After Kinship, Janet Carsten examines the implications of such episodes, the reproductive technologies and practices on which they rest, and the public concerns to which they give rise for the anthropological study of kinship. She is particularly concerned with the extent to which kinship is part of the pregiven, natural order of things and the extent to which it is shaped by human engagement (6). As she notes, Carsten takes a long way round (185) to arrive at an answer, exploring anthropology's analytical vocabulary as well as a variety of critical ethnographic cases. Chapter 1 situates the issues with which the book is concerned in a partial (10) history of the anthropology of kinship. In Carsten's [End Page 581] account, the central figure in this history is David Schneider. Before Schneider, anthropologists studying kinship had their differences—for example, on descent versus alliance theory—but for all of them kinship had to do with the function of social groups or the comparative analysis of kinship terminologies. Schneider's American Kinship (1968) and A Critique of the Study of Kinship (1984) launched the study of kinship on a distinctive new course, one that we are still exploring. Demonstrating, first, that American kinship was based on idioms of substance and code and, second, that these folk notions had pervaded kinship theory where they had distorted anthropologists' views of idioms of relatedness in other cultures, Schneider's work placed the generation of cultural meanings at the center of kinship studies. After Schneider, anthropologists seemed to lose interest in kinship. Studies of gender and symbolic aspects of the person (20) came to the fore, often with the aim, legitimated by Schneider's work on kinship, of detaching cultural meanings from natural givens and showing how, in Europe and North America, nature is produced rather than given or discovered. However, as Carsten observes, gender and personhood are intimately bound up with marriage, family structures, procreation beliefs, [and] inheritance (20), all aspects of kinship. In After Kinship, Carsten attempts to draw all this together in a classic anthropological project of comparison and contrast (22). The first half of the book, Chapters 2-4, delineates the ways in which analyses of relatedness have been affected by studies of gender, personhood, and the house. The second half of the book rethinks the distinction between the biological and social aspects of kinship. Chapter 5 is concerned with notions of substance. Chapter 6 is concerned with what used to be called fictive kinship, kinship based on cofeeding in Ecuador and Malaysia, on friendship in immigrant neighborhoods in London and among gays in San Francisco, and on adoption in Scotland. Chapter 7 examines the implications of new reproductive technologies. Admirably brief and clear, After Kinship contains a great deal that will be useful to professional as well as novice anthropologists. Certainly it supports the notion that kinship is not a clearly delimited 'thing' but an amorphous, polythetic concept (Good 1996:311). And it establishes that the connection of anthropologists with kinship, like the connection of a person with her kin, is one of diffuse, enduring solidarity (Schneider 1968:116). Nevertheless, just as kin are likely to quarrel, so students of kinship are likely to carry on arguing with one another. One set of quarrels may revolve around the history of anthropology and the concept of culture. One must accept that Schneider's work has had the value for Carsten, and..." @default.
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