Sometime Kin

Sandra Wallman is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology (Routledge, 1992) and The Capability of Places (Pluto, 2011).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. PerspectivesChapter 2. SettingChapter 3. BoundariesChapter 4. PopulationChapter 5. ChildrenChapter 6. SchoolChapter 7. Money and PropertyChapter 8. WorkChapter 9. AnimalsChapter 10. MarieChapter 11. CaterinaChapter 12. MargheritaChapter 13. MartinChapter 14. Twenty-five Years OnEthnographer's EpilogueCast of CharactersGlossaryReferencesIndex

"This is an arresting autobiography by an influential British woman anthropologist. Sandra Wallman addresses practical, emotional as well as academic issues around the experience of bringing her family - husband and four young children - to the field in Bellino, a small isolated commune in the Italian alps, in the early 1970s." Helena Wulff, Stockholm University