About KINSHIP Conference 2018

This conference seeks to engage with the notion of kin, kinship and family by examining the idea of the ‘new’ within academic engagements on the subject. There is now a move towards understanding kinship, as a lived reality away from its structural and folk underpinnings. Key to unearthing the different forms of engagement that being, becoming and unbecoming kin involves are the negotiated experiences within larger social processes. This conference will focus on exploring these and other debates through emerging ethnographies in South Asia, a region which has for long been the site of rich ethnographic and theoretical insights into family, kinship and marriage.