Relative values : reconfiguring kinship studies / edited by Sarah Franklin & Susan McKinnon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franklin, Sarah, 1960-

McKinnon, Susan, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship.

Physical Description:

viii, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822327864

0822327961

OCLC:

47625330