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1 online resource (x, 740 pages) |
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Cambridge handbooks in anthropology |
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Cambridge handbooks in anthropology.
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| Contents |
Introduction: conceiving kinship in the 21st century / S. Bamford -- The seeds of kinship theory / C. Delaney -- Descent in retrospect and prospect / G. Feeley-Harnik -- The alliance theory of kinship in South Indian ethnography / I. Clark-Decès -- The anthropology of biology: a lesson from the new kinship studies / S. Franklin -- The stuff of kinship / J. Carsten -- Embodied relationality beyond "nature" vs "nurture": materializing absent kinships in Japanese child welfare / K. Goldfarb -- Kinship in the Andes / M. Weismantel & Mary Elena Wilhoit -- Kinship and place: the existential and moral process of landscape formation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / J. Leach -- Adoption / C. Gailey -- Natural achievements: how lesbian and gay families in North America make claims to kinship / E. Lewin -- Kinship, knowledge and the state: the case of Argentina's adult "living disappeared" / Noa Vaisman -- Kinship, affliction, proximity, and unfinished healing in India / Sarah Pinto -- Reproductive remix: law, kinship and origin stories / Valerie Hartouni -- Selecting for sons: kinship as a product of desire / T. Gammeltoft -- Maids, mistresses and wives: rethinking kinship and the domestic sphere in 21st century global Hong Kong / N. Constable -- Transnational adoption / J. Leinaweaver -- Kinship in transnational encounters: Filipino migrants as "ideal brides" in rural Japan / L. Faier -- Un/making family: relatedness, migration, and displacement in a global age / D. Boehm -- My folder is not a person: kinship, knowledge, biopolitics and the adoption file / E. Kim -- Surrogate motherhood and transforming families / J. Dolgin -- Kinship and assisted reproductive technologies: a Middle Eastern comparison / M. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Soraya Tremayne & Zeynep Gurtin -- A comparison of kinship understandings among Israeli and U.S. surrogates / Elly Teman & Zsuzsa Berend -- Self, personhood and belonging: the role of technology in childhood disability / G. Landsman -- Paid and unpaid gestational labor: pregnancy and surrogacy in anthropological studies of reproduction / Tsipy Ivry & Elly Teman -- Reading the contested forms of nation through the contested forms of kinship and marriage / S. McKinnon -- The prison as a technology of care in North-east Brazil / Hollis Moore -- The interface between kinship and politics in three different social settings / S. Howell -- A global family: kinship, nations, and transnational organizations in Botswana's time of AIDS / K. Reece -- Kinship, world religions and the nation state / F. Cannell |
| Summary |
Presenting twenty-nine original chapters - each written by an expert in the field - this Handbook examines the history of kinship theory and the directions in which it has moved over the past few years. Using examples from across the globe (Africa, India, South America, Malaysia, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North America), this Handbook highlights the power of kinship theory to address questions of broad anthropological significance. How have recent advances in reproductive medicine fundamentally altered our understanding of biological properties? How has globalization brought in its wake new ways of imagining human relatedness? What might recent shifts in state welfare policies tell us about those relations of power that define the difference between 'functional' versus 'dysfunctional' families? Addressing these and many other timely concerns, this volume presents the results of cutting edge research and demonstrates that the study of kinship is likely to remain at the core of anthropological inquiry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kinship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Kinship
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Verwandtschaft
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Verwandtschaftsbezeichnung
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Verwandtschaftssystem
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Sozialanthropologie
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Ethnologie
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bamford, Sandra C., 1962- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781139644938 |
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1139644939 |
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