Editorial

In the last few years in France and the Anglophone countries, the subject of kinship has been eliciting new interest and new analyses. Four recently published works (three in French, one in English) offer an opportunity to assess how research questions and approaches, knowledge and theoretical deb...

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Autor principal: Déchaux, Jean-Hugues
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicat: 2009
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spelling cairn-RFS_501_0002RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2009-1-page-2?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.501.0002 Editorial Déchaux, Jean-Hugues2009 fre Revue française de sociologie | 50 | 1 | 2009-04-09 | p. 2-3 | 0035-2969 RFS_50177 In the last few years in France and the Anglophone countries, the subject of kinship has been eliciting new interest and new analyses. Four recently published works (three in French, one in English) offer an opportunity to assess how research questions and approaches, knowledge and theoretical debate are evolving in this field, a field that both anthropology and sociology are implicated in. Detailed study of the four works brings to light contrasting positions organized around a set of questions involving relations between the biological and the social, questions raised more than 20 years ago by David M. Schneider, an atypical North American anthropologist unjustly neglected in France. Today Schneider’s work seems to have marked a decisive turning point in the recent history of kinship studies.Cairn free access
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description In the last few years in France and the Anglophone countries, the subject of kinship has been eliciting new interest and new analyses. Four recently published works (three in French, one in English) offer an opportunity to assess how research questions and approaches, knowledge and theoretical debate are evolving in this field, a field that both anthropology and sociology are implicated in. Detailed study of the four works brings to light contrasting positions organized around a set of questions involving relations between the biological and the social, questions raised more than 20 years ago by David M. Schneider, an atypical North American anthropologist unjustly neglected in France. Today Schneider’s work seems to have marked a decisive turning point in the recent history of kinship studies.
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