ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 I showed how individuals’ understanding of their own experiences expressed through their life story narratives, has informed the theoretical focus of my research – the process of kinship and forms of relatedness as a process of creolisation. In this chapter, I use the case study of a single family, the Smiths, to explore how, as more generally with the wider process of creolisation, this particular family does kinship and relatedness. As I learned, the Smiths do this through a non-static, non-homogenising process of re-creating, re-inventing, incorporation, adaptations and negotiations of social and cultural processes that involve biological as well as non-biological relatives.
