[spsp-members] Relational Beings: Kin Matters in the Fragile Sciences - Reading Group starting Dec 2024

[Lucia Neco]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to join a final reading group associated with the ARC-Discovery Project Keeping Kinship in Mind, based at the University of Western Australia (UWA).  The group will focus on the penultimate manuscript of Relational Beings: Kin Matters in the Fragile Sciences, a forthcoming monograph by project lead Professor Rob Wilson that Oxford University Press should publish late in 2025. Our discussions will inform final, post-review changes to the manuscript.

The reading group will run weekly in a hybrid format, commencing on Thursday, December 12th with a break of three weeks for Christmas.  All readings, room details for in-person meetings at UWA, and Teams links for virtual attendance will be sent to your email (after registration). Meetings will be 1:30 hours long, starting at 2 pm Perth time. To convert to your time zone, you can use this link<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html>.

Relational Beings: Kin Matters in the Fragile Sciences addresses general issues—about reductionism, ethnocentrism, the relationships between the cognitive, biological, and social sciences—within the philosophy of anthropology, especially in the study of kinship.  The book integrates insights from various disciplines often siloed in discussions of kinship and sociality.  The central thread running through the three parts of the book—on relations, on incest and its avoidance, and on kinship—is that we best understand ourselves as relational beings by recognising biological and cognitive dimensions to kinship and our sociality.  This runs counter to much recent work within cultural anthropology on kin and kinship.

Meeting Schedule:

  *   December 12th:

     *   Chapter 1 Relatively Speaking
     *   Chapter 2 Mindful Relations


  *   December 19th:

     *   Chapter 3 Thinking About Relations Through Locke
     *   Chapter 4 Relations and Anthropological Knowledge


  *   January 9th:

     *   Chapter 5 Incest and its Avoidance in the Fragile Sciences
     *   Chapter 6 Escaping Disciplinary Grooves


  *   January 16th:

     *   Chapter 7 Kinship Past, Kinship Present, & Schneider’s Critique
     *   Chapter 8 Promulgating Progenerativism


  *   January 23rd:

     *   Chapter 8 The Ethnographic Argument
     *   Chapter 10 Why Kinship is Progeneratively Constrained

If you plan to attend, please let us know by sending an email to lucia.neco at uwa.edu.au<mailto:lucia.neco at uwa.edu.au>.  Feel free to join all or selected meetings based on your availability and interest.  We will send the December chapters by the end of November; contact Rob Wilson (rwilson.robert at gmail.com<mailto:rwilson.robert at gmail.com>) if you want a copy of the whole manuscript in advance.


Best,
Dr. Lucia C. Neco (she/her)
Project Coordinator – “Keep Kinship in Mind”
School of Humanities   •  University of Western Australia
https://luciacneco.weebly.com<https://luciacneco.weebly.com/>

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