Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His publications include Blackness and Race Mixture (1993), Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (1997), Music, Race and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia (2000), Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (2002). His current research focuses on issues of racial identity, embodiment and new genetic and information technologies.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and GeneticsPeter WadeChapter 2. Race, Genetics and Inheritance: Reflections upon the Birth of ‘Black’ Twins to a ‘White’ IVF MotherKatharine TylerChapter 3. Race, Biology and Culture in Contemporary Norway: Identity and Belonging in Adoption, Donor Gametes and ImmigrationSigne Howell and Marit MelhuusChapter 4. ‘I want her to learn her language and maintain her culture.’ Transnational Adoptive Families’ Views of ‘Cultural Origins’Diana MarreChapter 5. Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in EuropeBen CampbellChapter 6. Kinship, Language and the Dynamics of Race: The Basque CaseEnric Porqueres i GenéChapter 7. The Transmission of Ethnicity: Family and State - A Lithuanian PerspectiveDarius DaukšasChapter 8. Media Storylines of Culturally Hybrid Persons and NationBen Campbell GlossaryIndex

"The highlight of this collection is the depth and consistency of its comparative approach;… A further point of interest in this collection is the significant attention to media sources that the authors give."  ·  American Ethnologist“This collection fulfils its aim of broadening the terms and contexts of current debate…It is…recommended to scholars interested in human relatedness in its different forms and particularly those working at the intersections between relatedness and development in bioscience.”   ·   Journal of Biosocial Science“Rich with examples, taken together this volume extends in important ways our understanding of race, ethnicity, and nation through the perspective of kinship, conceived as entailing, as Wade puts it, ‘a constant traffic between natural and cultural idioms’.”   ·  JRAI