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FRANKLIN, Sarah and Susan McKINNON, eds., RELATIVE VALUES: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Durham. NC: Duke University Press, 2001, 519 pp., $21.95 softcover, $64.95 hardcover.
The editors of the present collection of papers, Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, have compiled (zusammengestellt) 17 articles discussing the question whether or not or to what extent 'kinship' still is a sound concept suitable for informing research on families or what the authors assembled in this volume might prefer to call 'lived experience of relatedness' following the example of one contributor to the volume, Janet Carsten. This was also the question discussed during the Wenner-Gren International Symposium 'New Directions in Kinship Studies: A Core Concept Revisited' which took place from 27 March to 4 April 1998 in Palma de Malarkey and which resulted in the present volume: With one exception contributors to this volume were participants in this symposium. It brings together scientists from different fields within anthropology, but also from the, history of science, women's studies and medicine and therefore represents the interdisciplinary discourse on 'kinship'.
In an introduction to the volume authored by the editors the reader is familiarized...