| Description |
viii, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Substantivism, antisubstantivism, and anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten -- The ethnography of creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American beaver / Gillian Feely-Harnik -- Making kinship, with an old reproductive technology / Mary Bouquet -- Kinship in hypertext: transubstantiating fatherhood and information flow in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich -- Kinship, controversy, and the sharing of substance: the race/class politics of blood transfusion / Kath Weston -- Strategic naturalizing: kinship in an infertility clinic / Charis Thompson -- Self-conscious kinship: some contested values in Norwegian transnational adoption / Signe Howell -- Practicing kinship in rural north China / Yunxiang Yan -- The shift in kinship studies in France: the case of grandparenting / Martine Segalen -- The economies in kinship and the paternity of culture: origin stories in kinship theory / Susan McKinnon -- Biologization revisited: kinship theory in the context of the new biologies / Sarah Franklin -- Blood/kinship, governmentality, and the cultures of order in colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper -- "We're going to tell these people who they really are": science and relatedness / Jonathan Marks -- Genealogical dis-ease: where hereditary abnormality, biomedical explanation, and family responsibility meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue Taussig -- Ambivalence in kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz -- Cutting the ties that bind: the sacrifice of Abraham and patriarchal kinship / Carol Delaney -- To forget their tongue, their name, and their whole relation: captivity, extra-tribal adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner Strong. |
| Subject |
Kinship.
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Kinship. |
| Added Author |
Franklin, Sarah, 1960-
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McKinnon, Susan, 1949-
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| ISBN |
0822327961 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822327864 cloth alkaline paper |
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