Race, Ethnicity, and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

Published by Berghahn Books 2007

Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

Edited by: Peter Wade

Volume 1 in the series Studies of the Biosocial Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455604

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About this book

Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics Peter Wade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Race, Genetics and Inheritance: Reflections upon the Birth of ‘Black’ Twins to a ‘White’ IVF Mother Katharine Tyler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Race, Biology and Culture in Contemporary Norway: Identity and Belonging in Adoption, Donor Gametes and Immigration Signe Howell and Marit Melhuus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. ‘I want her to learn her language and maintain her culture’: Transnational Adoptive Families’ Views of ‘Cultural Origins’ Diana Marre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5. Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in Europe Ben Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6. Kinship Language and the Dynamics of Race: The Basque Case Enric Porqueres I Gené Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. The Transmission of Ethnicity: Family and State – A Lithuanian Perspective Darius Dauksas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
8. Media Storylines of Culturally Hybrid Persons and Nation Ben Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 210
Keywords: Medical Anthropology

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Published: December 1, 2007
ISBN: 9780857455604