New Kinship

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Relatedness

  • Carsten (1990)

  • Deliberate move away from Kinship

  • Encompasses all ways people connect and can include indigenous models without assuming what counts as a significant bond

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Substance

  • Developed by Strathern

  • How people understand relatedness through shared bodily matter

  • In Carsten’s Malaysia work eating rice from the same hearth makes someone kin

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Shared corporeality

  • Bodies become similar through everyday practice

  • Sahlins → Mutuality of Being

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Mutuality of being

  • Sahlins (2011)

  • Kin live each others life and share a sense of self

  • They become intrinsic to each others existence

  • Food sharing/Gift giving are key mechanisms

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Sahlins case study

  • Maori Kinship

  • When a Māori person says 'I', they invoke their entire kin group past and present. I

  • ndividual identity is inseparable from collective identity.

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How does New kinship link to Schneider’s critique

  • Schneider welcomed it

  • It operationalised his critique by foregrounding non-biological relation, unconventional families and indigenous meanings