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The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) (1st Edition) by Janet Carsten Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-19-828046-7 / 0198280467 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828046-0 / 9780198280460 Janet Carsten offers a vivid and original investigation of nature and kinship in Malaysia, based on her own experience of life as a fister daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. Kinship relations are crucial to personal and social identity, and in Malaya culture identity is mutable and flu |