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). James Leach is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has undertaken long-term field research in rural Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and in the UK with people utilising new technologies for collaborative knowledge production. Published work includes Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (Berghahn Books, 2003), Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (ed., with Lawrence Kalinoe, Sean Kingston Publishing, 2004), and Freedom Imagined: Morality and Aesthetics in Open Source Software DesignA" (Ethnos 2009).

• Introduction Chapter 1. Arborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Racehorse Pedigrees Rebecca Cassidy Chapter 2. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial Kenya J. Teresa Holmes Chapter 3. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine Gisli Palsson Chapter 4. Genes, Mobilities, and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its applicators in Iceland Hilary Cunningham Chapter 5. Skipping a Generation and Assisting Conception Jeanette Edwards Chapter 6. 'Family Trees' Among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness Sandra Bamford Chapter 7. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significance of Transmission of the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea James Leach Chapter 8. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge Tim Ingold Chapter 9. Revealing and Obscuring River's Pedigrees: Biological Inheritance and Kinship in Madagascar Rita Astuti Chapter 10. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on Kinship and Magic Eduardo Viveiros de Castro List of Figures List of Contributors Index

“This collection of ten essays is the latest major work to call for renewed attention to the topic [of kinship], especially with respect to contemporary questions of how cultures relate to nature…[It] is a welcome addition to the ongoing revival of kinship, and will stimulate further debate among its many participants.” • Ethnobiology Letters

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). James Leach is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has undertaken long-term field research in rural Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and in the UK with people utilising new technologies for collaborative knowledge production. Published work includes Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (Berghahn Books, 2003), Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (ed., with Lawrence Kalinoe, Sean Kingston Publishing, 2004), and Freedom Imagined: Morality and Aesthetics in Open Source Software DesignA" (Ethnos 2009).

• Introduction Chapter 1. Arborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Racehorse Pedigrees Rebecca Cassidy Chapter 2. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial Kenya J. Teresa Holmes Chapter 3. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine Gisli Palsson Chapter 4. Genes, Mobilities, and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its applicators in Iceland Hilary Cunningham Chapter 5. Skipping a Generation and Assisting Conception Jeanette Edwards Chapter 6. 'Family Trees' Among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness Sandra Bamford Chapter 7. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significance of Transmission of the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea James Leach Chapter 8. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge Tim Ingold Chapter 9. Revealing and Obscuring River's Pedigrees: Biological Inheritance and Kinship in Madagascar Rita Astuti Chapter 10. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on Kinship and Magic Eduardo Viveiros de Castro List of Figures List of Contributors Index

“This collection of ten essays is the latest major work to call for renewed attention to the topic [of kinship], especially with respect to contemporary questions of how cultures relate to nature…[It] is a welcome addition to the ongoing revival of kinship, and will stimulate further debate among its many participants.” • Ethnobiology Letters

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). James Leach is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has undertaken long-term field research in rural Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and in the UK with people utilising new technologies for collaborative knowledge production. Published work includes Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (Berghahn Books, 2003), Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (ed., with Lawrence Kalinoe, Sean Kingston Publishing, 2004), and Freedom Imagined: Morality and Aesthetics in Open Source Software DesignA" (Ethnos 2009).

• Introduction Chapter 1. Arborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Racehorse Pedigrees Rebecca Cassidy Chapter 2. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial Kenya J. Teresa Holmes Chapter 3. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine Gisli Palsson Chapter 4. Genes, Mobilities, and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its applicators in Iceland Hilary Cunningham Chapter 5. Skipping a Generation and Assisting Conception Jeanette Edwards Chapter 6. 'Family Trees' Among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness Sandra Bamford Chapter 7. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significance of Transmission of the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea James Leach Chapter 8. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge Tim Ingold Chapter 9. Revealing and Obscuring River's Pedigrees: Biological Inheritance and Kinship in Madagascar Rita Astuti Chapter 10. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on Kinship and Magic Eduardo Viveiros de Castro List of Figures List of Contributors Index

“This collection of ten essays is the latest major work to call for renewed attention to the topic [of kinship], especially with respect to contemporary questions of how cultures relate to nature…[It] is a welcome addition to the ongoing revival of kinship, and will stimulate further debate among its many participants.” • Ethnobiology Letters