#strathern

[lazyjacks]

Ship built in Maitland - possibly the Strathern, 1890s Colchester Historeum Accession number: 1997.76.7

[tnelms]

Nothing unique here but a local assemblage nonetheless.

Marilyn Strathern, an immediate reflection on the Brexit vote. Somehow manages to capture perfectly what anthropology has to say about ... basically everything.

[social-anther]

As a pre-existing whole, society makes individuals into parts of itself by severing them from other pre-existing domains.

Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future (1992)

[marlboroughstrathernirwin]

Marlborough Strathern Irwin

Marlborough Strathern Irwin

[social-anther]

Anthropological knowledge offers a transparent example of the process involved in rethinking through concepts and images whose expressible forms already belong to other repertoires and thus to other specific domains of ideas.

Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future (1992)

[social-anther]

Conceptualized as a kind of inverse to lineal holism, the workings of cognatic kinship seemed incapable of yielding a model of a whole.

Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future (1992)

[social-anther]

The field of cognatic kin thus appeared as a set of consanguines naturally undifferentiated -- the raw material of kinship.

Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future (1992)

[social-anther]

Radcliffe-Brown called for the comparison of whole systems because (from the point of view of systems) only systems were whole. The English paradox was that holism was a feature of a part --not the whole-- of social life!

Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future (1992)