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5 - The Anthropology of Biology: A Lesson from the New Kinship Studies

from Part I - Opening Frameworks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2019

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Sarah Franklin
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Sandra Bamford
Sandra Bamford
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship , pp. 107 - 132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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