European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology /
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology /
ed. by Carles Salazar, Jeanette Edwards.
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 14 .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Matter in Kinship -- 1. Knowing and Relating: Kinship, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the New Genetics -- 2. Imagining Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Family, Kinship and ‘Local Thinking’ in Lithuania -- 3. Eating Genes and Raising People: Kinship Thinking and Genetically Modified Food in the North of England -- 4. The Family Body: Persons, Bodies and Resemblance -- 5. The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on Kinship -- 6. Corpo-real Identities: Perspectives from a Gypsy Community -- 7. Incest, Embodiment, Genes and Kinship -- 8. ‘Loving Mothers’ at Work: Raising Others’ Children and Building Families with the Intention to Love and Take Care -- 9. Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian Legislation -- 10. Fields of Post-human Kinship -- 11. Are Genes Good to Think With? -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index
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Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ‘the new kinship’, this interest was stimulated by the ‘new genetics’ and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and ‘belonging’ in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modified food an issue? Are ‘genes’ and ‘blood’ interchangeable? It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a ‘geneticization’ of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of ‘nature’ and of what is ‘natural’. But, they also illustrate the complexity of contemporary kinship thinking in Europe and the continued interconnectedness of biological and sociological understandings of relatedness and the relationship between nature and nurture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781845455736 9781845458928
10.1515/9781845458928 doi
Artificial insemination, Human--Social aspects--Europe.
Human reproduction--Social aspects--Europe.
Kinship--Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Medical Anthropology.
GN575 / .E93 2009
306.83094
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Matter in Kinship -- 1. Knowing and Relating: Kinship, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the New Genetics -- 2. Imagining Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Family, Kinship and ‘Local Thinking’ in Lithuania -- 3. Eating Genes and Raising People: Kinship Thinking and Genetically Modified Food in the North of England -- 4. The Family Body: Persons, Bodies and Resemblance -- 5. The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on Kinship -- 6. Corpo-real Identities: Perspectives from a Gypsy Community -- 7. Incest, Embodiment, Genes and Kinship -- 8. ‘Loving Mothers’ at Work: Raising Others’ Children and Building Families with the Intention to Love and Take Care -- 9. Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian Legislation -- 10. Fields of Post-human Kinship -- 11. Are Genes Good to Think With? -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ‘the new kinship’, this interest was stimulated by the ‘new genetics’ and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and ‘belonging’ in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modified food an issue? Are ‘genes’ and ‘blood’ interchangeable? It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a ‘geneticization’ of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of ‘nature’ and of what is ‘natural’. But, they also illustrate the complexity of contemporary kinship thinking in Europe and the continued interconnectedness of biological and sociological understandings of relatedness and the relationship between nature and nurture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781845455736 9781845458928
10.1515/9781845458928 doi
Artificial insemination, Human--Social aspects--Europe.
Human reproduction--Social aspects--Europe.
Kinship--Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Medical Anthropology.
GN575 / .E93 2009
306.83094