Suckling : Kinship More Fluid Hardback
by Fadwa El (UCLA, USA) Guindi
Part of the Routledge Studies in Anthropology series
Hardback
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A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf , this book reenergises the study of kinship.
It analyses the misunderstood and marginalized phenomenon of suckling drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Qatar over a seven-year period. Fadwa El Guindi situates suckling (often given other names or subsumed under misleading classifications) squarely in the analytical category of kinship, with recognition that kinship is necessarily biological, societal and cultural.
The volume takes kinship study beyond origins, nature-culture debates, and social nurturing and relatedness, and challenges claims of deterministic, reductionist formulas. As well as key reading for those involved in milk kinship research, this book is valuable for anthropologists, Middle East scholars and others with an interest in breastfeeding, family and social organisation, and religion.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:154 pages, 25 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/02/2020
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- ISBN:9781138315198
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:154 pages, 25 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/02/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138315198
