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Kinship and Beyond

The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled “kinship.” The detailed ethnographic work and analysis included in this text explores how these assumptions have been built into our understandings of race, personhood, ethnicity, property relations, and the relationship between human beings and non-human species. The authors explore the influences of the genealogical model of kinship in wider social theory and examine anthropology’s ability to provide a unique framework capable of bridging the “social” and “natural” sciences. In doing so, this volume brings fresh new perspectives to bear on contemporary theories concerning biotechnology and its effect upon social life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieFertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Antal sidor300
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9780857456397

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
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Människans biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Sandra Bamford is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Papua New Guinea and the West, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, landscape, environmentalism, globalization, and biotechnology. In addition to having authored several journal articles and book chapters, her most recent publications include: Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology (University of California Press, 2006) and Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).

AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Pedigrees of Knowledge: Anthropology and the Genealogical MethodSandra Bamford and James LeachChapter 2. Aborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Race Horse PedigreesRebecca CassidyChapter 3. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial KenyaTeresa HolmesChapter 4. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical MachineGisli PálssonChapter 5. Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its Applications in IcelandHilary CunninghamChapter 6. Skipping a Generation and Assisted KinshipJeanette EdwardsChapter 7. ‘Family Trees’ among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining RelatednessSandra BamfordChapter 8. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significance of Transmission on the Rai Coast of PNGJames LeachChapter 9. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of KnowledgeTim IngoldChapter 10. Revealing and Obscuring Rivers’s Pedigrees: Biological Inheritance and Kinship in MadagascarRita AstutiChapter 11. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on Kinship and MagicEduardo Viveiros de CastroNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

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