Constitutive knowledge: Tracing trajectories of information in new contexts of relatedness

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 403-426

  Carsten, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Globalization; Kinship; Personhood; Prenatal testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250846974     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2007.0020     Document Type: Review

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