schneider also dismissed the sociobiological account of biological influences, maintaining that these did not fit the ethnographic evidence (see more below). janet carsten employed her studies with the malays to reassess kinship. she uses the idea of "relatedness" to move away from a pre-constructed analytic opposition between the biological and the social. carsten argued that relatedness should be described in terms of indigenous statements and practices, some of which fall outside what anthropologists have conventionally understood as kinship;