Vital relations : modernity and the persistent life of kinship / edited by Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKinnon, Susan, 1949-

Cannell, Fenella.

Series:

School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship--Cross-cultural studies.

Kinship.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : SAR Press, School for Advanced Research Press, 2013.

Contents:

The difference kinship makes / Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell

Kinship within and beyond the "movement of progressive societies" / Susan McKinnon

Transnational family capitalism : producing "made in Italy" in China / Sylvia J. Yanagisako

"I am a petroleum product" : making kinship work on the Patagonian frontier / Elana Shever

Ghosts, commensality, and scuba diving : tracing kinship and sociality in clinical pathology labs and blood banks in Penang / Janet Carsten

On the road again : movement, marriage, mestizaje, and the race of kinship / Barbara Bodenhorn

"This body is our body" : Vishwakarma Puja, the social debts of kinship, and theories of materiality in a neoliberal shipyard / Laura Bear

Placing the dead : kinship, slavery, and free labor in pre- and post-Civil War America / Gillian Feeley-Harnik

The re-enchantment of kinship / Fenella Cannell

Kinship, modernity, and the immodern / Michael Lambek

Kinship and catastrophe : global warming and the rhetoric of descent / Danilyn Rutherford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-326) and index.

ISBN:

9781938645013

1938645014

OCLC:

825049100