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The theory of justice and the ethics of kinship
Juan Bestard
(Universitat de Barcelona)
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In this paper, I want to analyse if justice, as presented by Rawls in his Theory of Justice, is a concept appropriate to introduce in the anthropological analysis of kinship. First, I will examine why kinship was set apart from modernist theories of social contract. Second, I analyze the concepts of "reciprocity" and "amity" as the main anthropological concepts of the ethics of kinship, which could be related with the concept of justice. Finally, I analyze the justice as a virtue in kinship relations, especially between generations and gender relations.
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W007
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Session 1