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the substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: feeding, personhood, and relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi
Author(s) -
CARSTEN JANET
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1995.22.2.02a00010
Subject(s) - personhood , kinship , malay , identity (music) , sociology , anthropology , genealogy , gender studies , ethnology , history , aesthetics , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics
Malays on the island of Langkawi become complete persons, that is, kin, through living and consuming together in houses. Identity and substance are mutable and fluid. These perceptions suggest a processual view of kinship and personhood. They challenge anthropological definitions of kinship, which focus on procreation and which assume a universal division between the “biological” and the “social.” [Malay, kinship, personhood, feeding, social, biological]