Kinship, Migrations and the State
Anthropologists have long studied ‘exotic’ kinship patterns in distant places that differed from what was seen as the traditional nuclear family. The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a number of changes (new patterns of birth and marriage, new reproductive technologies, the increased...
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Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society)
2010-12-01
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Anthropologists have long studied ‘exotic’ kinship patterns in distant places that differed
from what was seen as the traditional nuclear family. The second half of the twentieth
century witnessed a number of changes (new patterns of birth and marriage, new reproductive technologies, the increased visibility of step- and adoptive elations) that changed scholars’ perceptions, convincing them that the traditional—even in Europe and North America—was no longer a helpful concept in understanding contemporary family dynamics. Accordingly, anthropologists reformulated their analytical tools to take stock of the variety of contemporary understandings of family life, placing the emphasis not on sexual procreation and blood connections, but on an enduring sentiment of diffuse solidarity: relatedness (Carsten 2000).
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| spelling | doaj.art-3daa8de661034df9bfce6f71f8b581722023-03-05T16:12:39ZengSuomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society)Suomen Antropologi1799-89722010-12-01354Kinship, Migrations and the StateClaudia Fonseca0Denise Jardim1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Anthropologists have long studied ‘exotic’ kinship patterns in distant places that differed from what was seen as the traditional nuclear family. The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a number of changes (new patterns of birth and marriage, new reproductive technologies, the increased visibility of step- and adoptive elations) that changed scholars’ perceptions, convincing them that the traditional—even in Europe and North America—was no longer a helpful concept in understanding contemporary family dynamics. Accordingly, anthropologists reformulated their analytical tools to take stock of the variety of contemporary understandings of family life, placing the emphasis not on sexual procreation and blood connections, but on an enduring sentiment of diffuse solidarity: relatedness (Carsten 2000). https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/127517 |
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