European kinship in the age of biotechnology / edited by Jeanette Edwards and Carles Salazar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Jeanette, 1954-

Salazar, Carles.

Series:

Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 14.

Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship--Europe.

Kinship.

Artificial insemination, Human--Social aspects--Europe.

Artificial insemination, Human.

Human reproduction--Social aspects--Europe.

Human reproduction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and 'belonging' in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modi

Contents:

Title page-European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1-Knowing and Relating: Kinship, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the New GEnetics; Chapter 2-Imagining Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Family, Kinship and 'Local Thinking' in Lithuania; Chapter 3-Eating Genes and Raising People: Kinship Thinking and Genetically Modified Food in the North of England; Chapter 4-The Family Body: Persons, Bodies and Resemblance; Chapter 5-The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on Kinship

Chapter 6-Corpo-Real Identities: Perspectives from a Gypsy CommunityChapter 7-Incest, Embodiment, Genes and Kinship; Chapter 8-'Loving Mothers' at Work: Raising Others' Children and Building Families with the Intention to Love and Take Care; Chapter 9-Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian Legislation; Chapter 10-Fields of Post-Human Kinship; Chapter 11-Are Genes Good to Think With?; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216) and index.

ISBN:

9786612627514

9780857456502

0857456504

9781282627512

1282627511

9781845458928

1845458923

OCLC:

645100758