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

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

Janet Carsten

336 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction emotional slow-paced
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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...

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