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Substance and Relationality: Blood in Contexts by Carsten, Janet

“…This article examines the way bodily substance has been deployed in the anthropology of kinship. Analytically important in linking kinship with understandings…”
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the substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: feeding, personhood, and relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi by CARSTEN, JANET

“…Malays on the island of Langkawi become complete persons, that is, kin, through living and consuming together in houses. Identity and substance are mutable and…”
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Imagining and living new worlds: The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration by Carsten, Janet

“…This essay considers kinship in the contexts of movement and migration. Delineating two quite different models of kinship (‘doing’ and ‘being’, the…”
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Introduction: blood will out by Carsten, Janet

“…What is blood? The many meanings of blood vividly attest to its polyvalent qualities and its unusual capacity for accruing layers of symbolic resonance. Life…”
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After Kinship by Carsten, Janet

“…This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the…”
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Kinship and gender as legacy and future by Carsten, Janet

“…A review essay on books by 1) Aaron Goodfellow, Gay fathers, their children, and the making of kinship (2015); 2) Catherine Lee, Fictive kinship: family…”
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Goodfellow, Aaron. Gay fathers, their children, and the making of kinship. 182 pp., bibliogr. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2015. £24.99 (paper) Lee, Catherine. Fictive kinship: family reunification and the meaning of race and nation in American immigration. xvii, 181 pp., tables, bibliogr. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2013. $29.95 (paper) Strathern, Marilyn. Before and after gender: sexual mythologies of everyday life (ed. and with an introduction by Sarah Franklin; afterword by Judith B by Carsten, Janet

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An Interview with Marilyn Strathern: Kinship and Career by Carsten, Janet

“…The interview was conducted in September 1996 in Cambridge. Marilyn Strathern (MS) and Janet Carsten (JC) had been colleagues at the University of Manchester’s…”
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An Interview with Marilyn Strathern: Kinship and Career: Social Theory After Strathern by CARSTEN, Janet

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'Searching for the truth': tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs by Carsten, Janet

“…This paper begins with a remarkable moment in contemporary Malaysian politics when a contested blood sample of the leader of the opposition was claimed by some…”
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Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang by Seo, Bo Kyeong

“…Seo reviews Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang by Janet Carsten…”
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'Searching for the truth': tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs: Blood will out: essays on liquid transfers and flows by CARSTEN, Janet

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Blood will out: essays on liquid transfers and flows by CARSTEN, Janet

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Constitutive Knowledge: Tracing Trajectories of Information in New Contexts of Relatedness by Carsten, Janet

“…One much-commented upon feature of globalization is an increased access to information. If new kinds of information, and a new speed of access to it,…”
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'Knowing where you've come from': Ruptures and continuities of time and kinship in narratives of adoption reunions by Carsten, Janet

“…This article, based on research in Scotland, discusses reunions between adults who have been adopted in infancy, and their birth kin. Although the distinction…”
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Editorial by Carsten, Janet, Frith, Simon

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Constitutive knowledge: Tracing trajectories of information in new contexts of relatedness: Kinship and globalization by CARSTEN, Janet

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The Politics of Forgetting: Migration, Kinship and Memory on the Periphery of the Southeast Asian State by Carsten, Janet

“…Migration histories of villagers from Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia, show extensive demographic movement. These histories can be linked to local notions of kinship…”
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Children in Between: Fostering and the Process of Kinship on Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia by Carsten, Janet

“…This article analyses the way kinship is created in and through the conception and nurturance of children amongst Malays on the island of Langkawi. In Langkawi…”
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Kinship and globalization by LUBKEMANN, Stephen C

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