Burmese Kinship Revisited: Substance and "Biology" in the World of Rebirth

Notions of kinship within systems of rebirth challenge the dominant Euro-American view of kinship as fundamentally biology-centred. By reading across the domains of religion and kinship in Burma, this article will show that what substance is, as well as does, is not self-evident, and thereby reorien...

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Main Author: Kumada, Naoko (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2015]
In: Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2015, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-108
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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