European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology

Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at Manchester University. She has published widely on the implications of new reproductive technologies for kinship both ethnographically and theoretically. She is author of Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (Oxford University Press, 2000), co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception (Routledge 2nd ed., 1999) and co-editor of Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science (Cambridge University Press 2011). She directed the European-funded project ‘Public Understanding of Genetics: a Cross- Cultural and Ethnographic Study of the “new genetics” and social identity’.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Matter in KinshipJeanette EdwardsChapter 1. Knowing and Relating: Kinship, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the New GeneticsJoan BestardChapter 2. Imagining Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Family, Kinship and ‘Local Thinking’ in LithuaniaAuksuole CepaitieneChapter 3. Eating Genes and Raising People: Kinship Thinking and Genetically Modified Food in the North of EnglandCathrine DegnenChapter 4. The Family Body: Persons, Bodies and ResemblanceDiana Marre and Joan BestardChapter 5. The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on KinshipAnne CadoretChapter 6. Corpo-real Identities: Perspectives from a Gypsy CommunityNathalie ManriqueChapter 7. Incest, Embodiment, Genes and KinshipEnric Porqueres i Gené and Jérôme Wilgaux (France)Chapter 8. ‘Loving Mothers’ at Work: Raising Others’ Children and Building Families with the Intention to Love and Take CareEniko DeményChapter 9. Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian LegislationMarit Melhuus and Signe HowellChapter 10. Fields of Post-human KinshipBen CampbellChapter 11. Are Genes Good to Think With?Carles SalazarNotes on ContributorsBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index

“This superb anthology extends the emphasis on technology that has become such a prominent feature of much recent anthropological work on kinship…In this richly ethnographic text, the most familiar problems produce the most unusual answers…Each chapter brilliantly combines kinship as a matrix with kinship as a tool, using ethnographic examples that leap off the page.”  ·  Journal of Anthropological Research