Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise

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Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise

Name: Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise
ISBN: 9780521849920

Marilyn Strathern

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Marilyn Strathern takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society--anthropologists using relationships to uncover relationships. The role of relations in western (Euro-American) knowledge practices, from the scientific revolution onwards, raises a question about the extent to which Euro-American kinship is the kinship of a knowledge-based society. This argument takes the reader through current issues in biotechnology, new family formations and legal interventions, as well as intellectual property debates, to matters of personhood and ownership afforded by material from Melanesia and elsewhere.

Categories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy

Year:

2005

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

241

ISBN 10:

0511345143