Creative Land

What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions by examining the making of people and the emergence of places in a particular context. Creative Land develops a powerful idea: the formulation of "creativity" as an ongoing and integral part of kinship as environmental engagement. It amounts to a re-organization of traditional domains of anthropological knowledge (such as subsistence economics, ritual, kinship, and gender) and yields a fresh perspective on the connections people trace to one another and the outcomes of their endeavors.