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Relative values : reconfiguring kinship studies / edited by Sarah Franklin & Susan McKinnon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kinship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (531 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays that redefine and transform the field of kinship.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06309-3
- 9786613063090
- 0-8223-8322-5
- OCLC:
- 213455205
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