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THE HEAT OF THE HEARTH
THE PROCESS OF KINSHIP IN A MALAY FISHING COMMUNITY |
| By: |
Janet Carsten |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£96.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198280467 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198280460 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 April, 1997 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Pages: |
330 |
| Description: |
Janet Carsten offers an original and very personal investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience of life as a foster daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. She shows that Malay kinship is a process, not a state: it is determined partly by birth, but also throughout life by living together and sharing food. Carsten gives the reader a fascinating 'anthropology of everyday life', including a compelling view of genderrelations; she urges reassessment of recent anthropological work on gender, and a new approach to the study of kinship. |
| Synopsis: |
Janet Carsten offers a vivid and original investigation of nature and kinship in Malaysia, based on her own experience of life as a fister daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. Kinship relations are crucial to personal and social identity, and in Malaya culture identity is mutable and fluid: it is given at birth through ties of procreation, but is also aquired throughout life by living together and sharing food. The author shows that the heat of the hearth is not only necessary for the cooking and sharing of food, but central to domestic life, including childbirth and reproduction. Kinship is a process not a state; people become kin largely through the everyday actions of women in and between the households. The incorporation and assimilation of newcomers-'making kinship'-is central to the social reproduction of village communities; domestic life is thus central to the political process. Janet Carsten gives the reader a fascinating 'anthropology of everyday life', including a compelling view of gender relations; she urges reassessment of recent anthropological work on gender, and a new approach to the study of kinship. |
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halftones, maps, diagrams |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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