Автор: Erdmute Alber

Within 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 opera …

In the course of last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social and cultural sciences. As a result of this proliferation of care in several disciplinary fields, we are observ …

Was macht Verwandtschaft heute aus? Und welche Fragen und Forschungsfelder werden derzeit diskutiert? In elf Beiträgen präsentiert dieses Buch einführend Ergebnisse aktueller ethnographischer Forschu …

Eheschließung, Scheidung, Zugang zu Vermögen während und nach der Ehe: All dies war über die Jahrhunderte durch kirchliche und zivile Ordnungen strukturiert. Das Recht nahm damit sehr direkt Einfluss …

Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often tho …

Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often tho …

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship …

In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, m …