Rosalie Stolz’s book is a beautifully detailed exploration of kinship among the Khmu, with many vignettes of the everyday. I particularly like her focus on understanding kinship as a process and kin ties as needing to be ‘worked’ at; and her focus on the centrality of food – and alcoholic drink! – in bringing kinship into being.
Rosalie Stolz’s book is a beautifully detailed exploration of kinship among the Khmu, with many vignettes of the everyday. I particularly like her focus on understanding kinship as a process and kin ties as needing to be ‘worked’ at; and her focus on the centrality of food – and alcoholic drink! – in bringing kinship into being.