Janet Carsten
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Carsten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Carsten |
| SIGNATURE | CARSTEN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 712 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows
Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness
Ghosts of memory: Essays on remembrance and relatedness
Contributors. 1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). 2. Ruins and Ghosts: The Domestic Uncanny and the Materialization of Anglo-Indian Genealogies in Kharagpur: Laura Bear (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3. Enlivened Memories: Recalling Absence and Loss in Mongolia: Rebecca Empson (University of Cambridge). 4. Connections and Disconnections of Memory and Kinship in Narratives of Adoption Re…
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
Ghosts of memory: Essays on remembrance and relatedness
Contributors. 1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). 2. Ruins and Ghosts: The Domestic Uncanny and the Materialization of Anglo-Indian Genealogies in Kharagpur: Laura Bear (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3. Enlivened Memories: Recalling Absence and Loss in Mongolia: Rebecca Empson (University of Cambridge). 4. Connections and Disconnections of Memory and Kinship in Narratives of Adoption Re…
Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness
Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows
Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
Kinship (5 works) · Social aspects (4 works) · Congresses (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Memory (2 works) · Memory (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Political science (2 works)