Description: The Heat of the Hearth Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community Author(s): Janet Carsten Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 9780198280460, 978-0198280460 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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Book Title: The Heat of the Hearth
Number of Pages: 330 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Heat of the Hearth: the Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Zoology, Anthropology
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 426 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Janet Carsten
Subject Area: Social Work
Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Item Width: 138 mm
Format: Paperback
