ABSTRACT
As a topic of anthropological enquiry, fur is ripe for comparison with evocative material culture from places and times quite different from late 2000s Poland. This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses upon an unexpected combination of domestic and professional domains: home-based furrier businesses. It addresses the topic of inheritance explicitly by focusing on the trajectories of family fur businesses. The book discusses the opinions of another group unusually interested in fur: animal rights activists. Activists used 'comprehensive veganism' as an example of how their political and personal lives were drawn together by their commitment to animal rights. Both the history of fur in Krakow and the ways in which fur is used to reflect, generate or reject types of kinship and relatedness have led to argue that fur occupies a thought-provoking place in Krakowian kinship.
