Politics of Making Kinship

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvErdmute Alber,David Warren Sabean,Simon Teuscher,Tatjana Thelen

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The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-09
Mått152 x 229 x 34 mm
Vikt800 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800738003

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Politics of Making KinshipErdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana ThelenPart I: EpistemologiesChapter 1 . Quantifying Generations. Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship CalculationSimon TeuscherChapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850Michaela HohkampChapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the “Genealogical Method”Staffan Müller-WilleChapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social AnthropologyThomas ZitelmannChapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and Epistemic VoidTatjana ThelenPart II: ProjectsChapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and ParsonsDavid Warren SabeanChapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories. Bodin’s and Hotman’s Ideas of MonarchyJulia HeinemannChapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century AmericaSusan McKinnonChapter 9. Towards a Political Economy of the Maternal Body. Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French FeminismCaroline ArniPart III: DeploymentsOutline and summariesChapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/BeninErdmute AlberChapter 11. “As If Begotten and Born of Feeborn Parents” – Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman OccidentLudolf KuchenbuchChapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in NorwayMerit MelhuusChapter 13. Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State TheoriesJon MathieuChapter 14. Translating the FamilyClaudia DerichsIndex

“This is a powerful volume that argues for kinship and politics to be studied and analyzed in conjunction and not separately, as is still common within the social and political sciences. …What makes the volume particularly strong is that it combines discussions of semantic shifts, political contestations, and philosophy and theory of house(hold), kin, and family relations.”  • Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology