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This book symposium engages with Marshall Sahlins’s What Kinship Is—and Is Not. The four contributors—Ilana Gershon, Janet Carsten, Susan McKinnon, and Robert Parkin—critically examine Sahlins’s central arguments, offering alternative perspectives on the nature of kinship, its relationship to biology, and its cross-cultural variability. They discuss the utility of Sahlins’s mutuality of being definition, the role of performativity and context in kinship studies, and the challenges of defining kinship universally. Sahlins responds to each of the critiques, defending his position and clarifying his arguments. The symposium provides a valuable forum for debate on the fundamental concepts of kinship and its place in anthropological theory.

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