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Author El Guindi, Fadwa, author

Title Suckling : kinship more fluid / Fadwa El Guindi
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 154 pages)
Series Routledge studies in anthropology
Routledge studies in anthropology.
Contents Introduction: Kinship in perspective -- Conceptual principles -- Genealogy of dissent -- "He who begets never dies" -- 'Groin', 'womb', 'nerve' -- Overview of milk kinship -- What is suckling? -- "I brothered cousins and siblinged my son" -- The cognitive dance of kinship -- Reflections: The anthropological gaze
Summary "A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf, this book reenergises the study of kinship. It analyses the misunderstood and marginalized phenomenon of suckling drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Qatar over a seven-year period. Fadwa El Guindi situates suckling (often given other names or subsumed under misleading classifications) squarely in the analytical category of kinship, with recognition that kinship is necessarily biological, societal and cultural. The volume takes kinship study beyond origins, nature-culture debates, and social nurturing and relatedness, and challenges claims of deterministic, reductionist formulas. As well as key reading for those involved in milk kinship research, this book is valuable for anthropologists, Middle East scholars and others with an interest in breastfeeding, family and social organisation, and religion"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Fadwa El Guindi is Founding Director of El Nil Research. She is formerly a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Qatar University in Doha and is Retiree Anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 31, 2020)
Subject Kinship -- Qatar
Families -- Qatar
Breastfeeding -- Social aspects -- Qatar
Breast milk -- Social aspects -- Qatar
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Breastfeeding -- Social aspects
Families
Kinship
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Qatar -- Social life and customs
Subject Qatar
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019049970
ISBN 9780429456480
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