Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies

Published by Duke University Press 2001

Relative Values

Reconfiguring Kinship Studies

Edited by: Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon
With contributions by: Janet Carsten and Gillian Feeley-Harnik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383222

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Contents

About this book

A collection of essays that redefine and transform the field of kinship.

Author / Editor information

Sarah Franklin is Reader in Cultural Anthropology for the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, England.

Susan McKinnon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

“This important collection of inter-disciplinary essays on the new kinship shows diverse ways that relative values, shifting solidarities, and partial connections of truth and affect today create the ties that bind.”—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

“This is one of the few books which crosses disciplinary terrains with clear and brilliant consequences. It not only brings anthropology into every sphere, but shows that fundamental thinking on life and kinship under conditions of globalization compel us to accept and work with a radical remapping of knowledge. This text considers these issues with prismatic illumination and is unprecedented in its success.”—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

"The challenge of recoding our kinship studies and our kinship behaviour remains, but the essays in Relative Values provide a broad template that makes meeting the challenge possible—and necessary. Scholars in a multitude of fields will be grateful for this finely executed collection."

-- Judith S. Modell, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext
1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism Janet Carsten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver Gillian Feeley-Harnik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology Mary Bouquet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life Stefan Helmreich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
PART II Kinship Negotiations: What’s Biology Not/Got to Do with It
5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/ Class Politics of Blood Transfusion Kath Weston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic Charis Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption Signe Howell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China Yunxiang Yan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting Martine Segalen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
PART III Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship
10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory Susan McKinnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies Sarah Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
PART IV ’R’ Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies
12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa Melbourne Tapper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
13. ‘‘We’re Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are’’: Science and Relatedness Jonathan Marks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath and Karen-Sue Taussig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
PART V Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship
15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s Michael G. Peletz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
16. Cutting the Ties That Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act Pauline Turner Strong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	468
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 530
Illustrations
- Other: 11 b&w photos, 1 table, 6 maps, 15 figures

eBook

Published: February 22, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383222