The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community

by Janet Carsten

Janet Carsten offers an original and very personal investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience as a foster daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. She shows that Malay kinship is a process, not a state: it is determined partly by birth, but also throughout life by living together and sharing food. Carsten gives the reader a fascinating "anthropology of everyday life," including a compelling view of gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198280467
• ISBN13: 9780198280460
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"