{"product_id":"reconnecting-state-and-kinship-9780812294415","title":"Reconnecting State and Kinship","description":"\u003cp\u003eWithin the social sciences, kinship and statehood are often seen as two distinct modes of social organization, sometimes conceived of as following each other in a temporal line and sometimes as operating on different scales. Kinship is traditionally associated with small-scale communities in stateless societies. The state, meanwhile, is viewed as a development away from kinship as political order toward rational, impersonal, and functional forms of rule. In recent decades, theoretical and empirical scholarship has challenged these notions, but the underlying presumption of a deep-rooted opposition between kinship and the (modern) state has remained surprisingly stable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat this binary is so deeply engrained in Western self-understanding and knowledge production poses a considerable challenge to decoding their coproduction. \u003ci\u003eReconnecting State and Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to trace the historical shifts and boundary work implied in the ongoing reproduction of these supposedly discrete or even opposing units of analysis. Contributors ask whether concepts associated with one sphere —including corruption, patronage, lineage, and incest—surface in the other. Policies and interventions modeled upon the assumed polarity can have lasting consequences for mechanisms of marginalization and exclusion, including decisions about life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReconnecting State and Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e not only explores the boundary-related and classificatory practices that reinforce the kinship\/statehood binary but also tracks the traveling of these concepts and their underlying norms through time and space ultimately demonstrating the ways that kinship and \"the state\" are intertwined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Erdmute Alber, Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Helle Bundgaard, Jeanette Edwards, Karen Fog Olwig, Victoria Goddard, Michael Herzfeld, Eirini Papadaki, Frances Pine, Ivan Rajković, Tatjana Thelen, Thomas Zitelmann.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tatjana Thelen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48292029464827,"sku":"9780812294415","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780812294415.jpg?v=1772482855","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/reconnecting-state-and-kinship-9780812294415","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}