Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Published by Berghahn Books 2009

Kinship and Beyond

The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Edited by: Sandra Bamford and James Leach

Volume 15 in the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458966

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The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled “kinship.” The detailed ethnographic work and analysis included in this text explores how these assumptions have been built into our understandings of race, personhood, ethnicity, property relations, and the relationship between human beings and non-human species. The authors explore the influences of the genealogical model of kinship in wider social theory and examine anthropology’s ability to provide a unique framework capable of bridging the “social” and “natural” sciences. In doing so, this volume brings fresh new perspectives to bear on contemporary theories concerning biotechnology and its effect upon social life.

Author / Editor information

Sandra Bamford is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Papua New Guinea and the West, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, landscape, environmentalism, globalization, and biotechnology. In addition to having authored several journal articles and book chapters, her most recent publications include: Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology (University of California Press, 2006) and Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).

James Leach is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Published works include Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (2003), Reite Plants: An Ethnobotanical Study in Tok Pisin and English (2010, with Porer Nombo), and Recognising and Translating Knowledge, 2012 Anthropological Forum Special Issue, ed with R. Davis).

Sandra Bamford is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Papua New Guinea and the West, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, landscape, environmentalism, globalization, and biotechnology. In addition to having authored several journal articles and book chapters, her most recent publications include: Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology (University of California Press, 2006) and Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).

Reviews

“This collection of ten essays is the latest major work to call for renewed attention to the topic [of kinship], especially with respect to contemporary questions of how cultures relate to nature…[It] is a welcome addition to the ongoing revival of kinship, and will stimulate further debate among its many participants.” • Ethnobiology Letters

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction PEDIGREES OF KNOWLEDGE ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD Sandra Bamford and James Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 ARBORESCENT CULTURE WRITING AND NOT WRITING RACEHORSE PEDIGREES Rebecca Cassidy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 2 WHEN BLOOD MATTERS: MAKING KINSHIP IN COLONIAL KENYA J. Teresa Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Chapter 3 THE WEB OF KIN: AN ONLINE GENEALOGICAL MACHINE Gísli Pálsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Chapter 4 GENES, MOBILITIES AND THE ENCLOSURES OF CAPITAL: CONTESTING ANCESTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN ICELAND Hilary Cunningham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 5 SKIPPING A GENERATION AND ASSISTING CONCEPTION Jeanette Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 6 ‘FAMILY TREES’ AMONG THE KAMEA OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA: A NON-GENEALOGICAL APPROACH TO IMAGINING RELATEDNESS Sandra Bamford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 7 KNOWLEDGE AS KINSHIP: MUTABLE ESSENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSMISSION ON THE RAI COAST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA James Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 8 STORIES AGAINST CLASSIFICATION: TRANSPORT, WAYFARING AND THE INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE Tim Ingold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Chapter 9 REVEALING AND OBSCURING RIVERS’S PEDIGREES: BIOLOGICAL INHERITANCE AND KINSHIP IN MADAGASCAR Rita Astuti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Chapter 10 THE GIFT AND THE GIVEN: THREE NANO-ESSAYS ON KINSHIP AND MAGIC Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 300
Keywords: Medical Anthropology

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Published: March 1, 2009
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