No. 32 (2019): At the edges of kinship. Margins in contemporary kinship studies

What can the question of the margins tell us about kinship? Conversely, how do studies on kinship contribute to shedding light on the relationship of the margins to the norm? How are the notions of margins, confines, borders or limits understood and operated according to time and geographical spaces? Through five original articles and a double interview, this issue sheds light on the diversity of meanings of these notions by describing the practices, representations and norms associated with them. It is an invitation to reexamine classic anthropological themes such as the alliance, the relationship between the living and the dead, gender and filiation.