Janet Carsten: 2 books

Relative Values

Reconfiguring Kinship Studies

by Janet Carsten, Gillian Feeley-Harnik
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002

The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a...

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...