This workshop aims to explore and untangle various configurations of three anthropological categories: kinship, ethics, and economics. While kinship was once the defining topic of study for anthropology, it has fallen out of fashion in recent years. Anthropology may have lost analytical sight of kinship, but this aspect of human life is still very salient in the lives of people everywhere. With this workshop, we reintroduce kinship as a dynamic factor in ethical and economic life in the pursuit of anthropological theory that more accurately captures the complexities of the world.

Based on 12 ethnographically grounded digital presentations released on 22nd June, participants will come together via Zoom on 29th and 30th June to discuss possible routes towards these new theories. The discussion will be amplified and guided by three “Impulse” Lectures given by Janet Carsten, Fenella Cannell, and Evan Killick. If you would like to attend, please fill out the google form here.

Full details of discussants, participants and a timetable are here.