“Drawing on a wonderfully diverse array of sources, and in a dazzling display of analytic brilliance, Marilyn Strathern traces the parallel trajectories of ‘relation’—as comparison and as kinship—from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. Relations of both kinds, and the connections and knowledge that bind them, will be apprehended differently after reading this extraordinary work.” — Janet Carsten, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
“An extraordinary work by one of today's preeminent scholars in the field of anthropology, Relations radically transforms our understanding of both kin-making and knowledge-making as well as the depths and productivity of their entwinement. It does so not only in the epistemic and relational cosmology of the English-speaking world, but also, by the light of comparison, in those of other cultural worlds. A profoundly illuminating book.” — Susan McKinnon, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Virginia
“Relations unfolds as a tour-de-force in the history, philosophy, and anthropology of social descriptors, bedazzling its readers as it charts how relations have sneaked between the limits of every account of (more-than-) human affairs, at every turn rekindling the magic and the challenge of anthropological analysis.” — Alberto Corsín Jímenez, Reader in Social Anthropology, Spanish National Research Council