168 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Conceptual Principles; 2. Genealogy of Dissent; 3. "He Who Begets Never Dies"; 4.‘Groin’, ‘Womb’, ‘Nerve’; 5. Overview of Milk Kinship; 6. What is Suckling; 7. "I Brothered Cousins and Siblinged my Son"; 8. The Cognitive Dance of Kinship
Biography
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.
