Reconnecting State and Kinship

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2018

Reconnecting State and Kinship

Edited by: Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294415

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About this book

Reconnecting State and Kinship seeks to overcome the traditional dichotomy between state and kinship, asking whether concepts associated with one sphere surface in the other, tracking the evolution of these concepts through time and space, and exploring how this binary is reinforced within the social sciences.

Author / Editor information

Tatjana Thelen is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. Erdmute Alber is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth.

Reviews

"Reconnecting State and Kinship makes a valuable contribution by arguing for the mutual relevance of the fields of kinship and studies of the state. The book's editors and contributors demonstrate how concepts 'travel' between the realms of kinship and the amalgam of actors that animate the state, and in doing so acquire new meanings."—Alice Wilson, University of Sussex

"An excellent collection that goes quite some way to suturing the divide between studies of kinship and family and ethnographies of the state. Editors Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber have crafted a coherent volume that speaks to larger themes within contemporary political anthropology, assembling a uniformly strong set of contributions that pull together a number of key threads in ways that make this book very useful for scholars working in gender studies, kinship studies, and the anthropology of the state."—Rebecca Bryant, Utrecht University

"Arguing that the anthropology of kinship and political anthropology have become two distinct sub-disciplines, mirroring the assumed dichotomy of traditional versus modern societies, this edited volume sets out to demonstrate the theoretical weakness that arises of such positions. Through excellent chapters by experienced anthropologists, we are shown the fallacy of the separation. Kinship and politics emerge as mutually constitutive enriching our understanding of both."—Signe Howell, University of Oslo

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Reconnecting State and Kinship: Temporalities, Scales, Classifications Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Traveling Concepts Temporalities, Scales, and the Making of Political Order
Chapter 1. Corruption as Political Incest Temporalities of Sin and Redemption Michael Herzfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 2. Kinship Weaponized Representations of Kinship and Binary Othering in U.S. Military Anthropology Thomas Zitelmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 3. Inside and Outside the Language of Kinship Public and Private Conceptions of Sociality Frances Pine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 4. Appropriate Kinship, Legitimate Nationhood Shifting Registers of Gender and State Victoria Goddard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Chapter 5. From Familial to Familiar Corruption, Political Intimacy, and the Reshaping of Relatedness in Serbia Ivan Rajković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Part II. Classifying Kinship and the Making of Citizens
Chapter 6. The Politics of “See-Through” Kinship Jeanette Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 7. Undoing Kinship Producing Citizenship in a Public Maternity Hospital in Athens, Greece Eirini Papadaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Chapter 8. Producing “Good” Families and Citizens in Danish Child Care Institutions Helle Bundgaard and Karen Fog Olwig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Chapter 9. After Citizenship The Process of Kinship in a Setting of Civic Inequality Apostolos Andrikopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Anthropology; Political Science; Folklore; Linguistics

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Published: November 2, 2017
ISBN: 9780812294415