Kinship, law and the unexpected : relatives are always a surprise / Marilyn Strathern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strathern, Marilyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship.

Kinship (Law).

Domestic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Contents:

Part 1 Divided Origins

Introduction: Divided Origins 3

The Child's Two Bodies 4

A Tool 6

Divided Origins 9

1 Relatives Are Always a Surprise: Biotechnology in an Age of Individualism 15

An Age of Individualism 15

Adding Debate 17

Individual and Common Interests 20

Recombinant Families 22

Thinking About Relatives 25

2 Embedded Science 33

Isolated Knowledge 35

Relations Everywhere 37

Kinship Uncovered 43

3 Emergent Properties 50

Multiple Origins 51

An Analogy 55

Offspring into Property 58

Information into Knowledge 61

Relations into Relations 64

Kinship and Knowledge 67

The Informational Family 71

Part 2 The Arithmetic of Ownership

Introduction: The Arithmetic of Ownership 81

Conception by Intent 82

Leaving 'Knowledge' to One Side 83

The Arithmetic of Ownership 87

4 The Patent and the Malanggan 92

Introducing the Body 92

Enchantment 94

Return to New Ireland - 1 96

Patenting Technology 99

Return to New Ireland - 2 104

5 Losing (out on) Intellectual Resources 111

The Terms of an Agreement 112

Tradition and Modernity 114

Body Ownership 118

Whole Persons: Things 120

Part Persons: Agents 125

Decontextualisation 130

Intellectual Resources 133

6 Divided Origins and the Arithmetic of Ownership 135

Counting People: Murik 138

Analogous World 140

Counting Ancestors: Omie 142

Owners and Makers 144

Propagating Images 147

Intellectual Products? 149

Ownership of Persons? 151

Single and Multiple Origins 155

Applied Maths 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.

ISBN:

0521849926

0521615097

OCLC:

57452770