Politics and kinship : a reader / edited by Erdmute Alber and Tatjana Thelen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alber, Erdmute, editor.

Thelen, Tatjana, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Anthropological aspects.

Political science.

Kinship--Political aspects.

Kinship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2022]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Erdmute Alber is Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Tatjana Thelen is Full Professor in the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Contents:

Introduction : politics and kinship / Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber

Introduction to African political systems / Meyer Fortes and Edward E. Evans-Pritchard

Kinship within and beyond the 'Movement of Progressive Societies' / Susan McKinnon

Kinship weaponized : representations of kinship and binary othering in U.S. military anthropology / Thomas Zitelmann

Father state, motherland, and the birth of modern Turkey / Carol Delaney

The village headman in British Central Africa : introduction / Max Gluckman

State kinning and kinning the state in Serbian elder care programs / Tatjana Thelen, André Thiemann and Duška Roth

Doubt is the mother of all inventions : DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting / Claudia Fonseca

The algebra of genocide / Diane Nelson

Carnal knowledge and imperial power : gender and morality in the making of race / Ann Laura Stoler

Genomics en route : ancestry, heritage and the politics of identity across the Black Atlantic / Katharina Schramm

Making merit : the Indian Institutes of Technology and the social life of caste / Ajantha Subramanian

The origins of the family, property, and the state / Friedrich Engels

Including our own / Jeanette Edwards and Marilyn Strathern

Parenthood and social reproduction / Esther Goody

No school without foster families in northern Benin : a social historical approach / Erdmute Alber

Defining parents, making citizens : nationality and citizenship in transnational surrogacy / Daisy Deomampo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Politics and kinship

ISBN:

9781003003595

1003003591

9781000471199

1000471195

9781000471175

1000471179

Publisher Number:

99989323375

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Restricted for use by site license.