Franklin / McKinnon Relative Values

Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8322-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 530 Seiten

A collection of essays that redefine and transform the field of kinship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franklin, Sarah

McKinnon, Susan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carsten, Janet

Feeley-Harnik, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies / Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon

Part I. Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext

1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten

2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver / Gillian Feeley-Harnik

3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology / Mary Bouquet

4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life / Stefan Helmreich

Part II. Kinship Negotiations: What’s Biology Not/Got to Do with It

5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/Class Politics of Blood Transfusion / Kath Weston

6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic / Charis Thompson

7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption / Signe Howell

8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China / Yunxiang Yan

9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting / Martine Segalen

Part III. Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship

10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory / Susan McKinnon

11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies / Sarah Franklin

Part IV. ‘R’ Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies

12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper

13. “We’re Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are”: Science and Relatedness / Jonathan Marks

14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Heredity Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue Taussig

Part V. Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship

15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz

16. Cutting the Ties that Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship / Carol Delaney

17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner Strong

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Franklin is Reader in Cultural Anthropology for the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, England.Susan McKinnon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.