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Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise

By Marilyn Strathern

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521849926, 9780521849920, 9780511345142
Open Library ID
OL7766593M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2073564 bytes)
Pages
241\241
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

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.

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