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Relative values : reconfiguring kinship studies / edited by Sarah Franklin & Susan McKinnon.

Contributor(s): Franklin, Sarah, 1960- | McKinnon, Susan, 1949-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2001Description: viii, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0822327961 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0822327864 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): KinshipDDC classification: 306.83 LOC classification: GN487 | .R45 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Substantivism, antisubstantivism, and anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten -- The ethnography of creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American beaver / Gillian Feely-Harnik -- Making kinship, with an old reproductive technology / Mary Bouquet -- Kinship in hypertext: transubstantiating fatherhood and information flow in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich -- Kinship, controversy, and the sharing of substance: the race/class politics of blood transfusion / Kath Weston -- Strategic naturalizing: kinship in an infertility clinic / Charis Thompson -- Self-conscious kinship: some contested values in Norwegian transnational adoption / Signe Howell -- Practicing kinship in rural north China / Yunxiang Yan -- The shift in kinship studies in France: the case of grandparenting / Martine Segalen -- The economies in kinship and the paternity of culture: origin stories in kinship theory / Susan McKinnon --
Biologization revisited: kinship theory in the context of the new biologies / Sarah Franklin -- Blood/kinship, governmentality, and the cultures of order in colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper -- "We're going to tell these people who they really are": science and relatedness / Jonathan Marks -- Genealogical dis-ease: where hereditary abnormality, biomedical explanation, and family responsibility meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue Taussig -- Ambivalence in kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz -- Cutting the ties that bind: the sacrifice of Abraham and patriarchal kinship / Carol Delaney -- To forget their tongue, their name, and their whole relation: captivity, extra-tribal adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner Strong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Substantivism, antisubstantivism, and anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten -- The ethnography of creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American beaver / Gillian Feely-Harnik -- Making kinship, with an old reproductive technology / Mary Bouquet -- Kinship in hypertext: transubstantiating fatherhood and information flow in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich -- Kinship, controversy, and the sharing of substance: the race/class politics of blood transfusion / Kath Weston -- Strategic naturalizing: kinship in an infertility clinic / Charis Thompson -- Self-conscious kinship: some contested values in Norwegian transnational adoption / Signe Howell -- Practicing kinship in rural north China / Yunxiang Yan -- The shift in kinship studies in France: the case of grandparenting / Martine Segalen -- The economies in kinship and the paternity of culture: origin stories in kinship theory / Susan McKinnon --

Biologization revisited: kinship theory in the context of the new biologies / Sarah Franklin -- Blood/kinship, governmentality, and the cultures of order in colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper -- "We're going to tell these people who they really are": science and relatedness / Jonathan Marks -- Genealogical dis-ease: where hereditary abnormality, biomedical explanation, and family responsibility meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue Taussig -- Ambivalence in kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz -- Cutting the ties that bind: the sacrifice of Abraham and patriarchal kinship / Carol Delaney -- To forget their tongue, their name, and their whole relation: captivity, extra-tribal adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner Strong.

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