The heat of the hearth: the process of kinship in a Malay fishing community / Janet Carsten
1997, 1st Paperback Edition. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #353962
ISBN: 0198280467
Physical description: ix, 314 pages: illustrations, map; 23 cm. Contents: pt. 1. Inside the House. 1. The House. 2. The Production of Children: House Cycles and Life Cycles. 3. Bodies within Bodies: The House and the Sibling Group. 4. The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth -- pt. 2. Outside the House. 5. The World Outside. 6. Between Houses: Visiting, Eating, and Feasting. 7. The Incorporation of Difference: Marriage. 8. Producing Similarity: Affinity and the Sharing of Grandchildren. 9. Coercive Incorporation: The Historical Construction of Community. Subjects:
Kinship Malaysia Langkawi Island (Kedah). Fishing villages Malaysia Langkawi Island (Kedah). Social anthropology.
Price: €65.00