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Kinship and Beyond : The Genealogical Model Reconsidered / ed. by James Leach, Sandra Bamford.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 15Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845454227
  • 9781845458966
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  • 306.83
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Introduction PEDIGREES OF KNOWLEDGE ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD -- Chapter 1 ARBORESCENT CULTURE WRITING AND NOT WRITING RACEHORSE PEDIGREES -- Chapter 2 WHEN BLOOD MATTERS: MAKING KINSHIP IN COLONIAL KENYA -- Chapter 3 THE WEB OF KIN: AN ONLINE GENEALOGICAL MACHINE -- Chapter 4 GENES, MOBILITIES AND THE ENCLOSURES OF CAPITAL: CONTESTING ANCESTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN ICELAND -- Chapter 5 SKIPPING A GENERATION AND ASSISTING CONCEPTION -- Chapter 6 ‘FAMILY TREES’ AMONG THE KAMEA OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA: A NON-GENEALOGICAL APPROACH TO IMAGINING RELATEDNESS -- Chapter 7 KNOWLEDGE AS KINSHIP: MUTABLE ESSENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSMISSION ON THE RAI COAST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- Chapter 8 STORIES AGAINST CLASSIFICATION: TRANSPORT, WAYFARING AND THE INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 9 REVEALING AND OBSCURING RIVERS’S PEDIGREES: BIOLOGICAL INHERITANCE AND KINSHIP IN MADAGASCAR -- Chapter 10 THE GIFT AND THE GIVEN: THREE NANO-ESSAYS ON KINSHIP AND MAGIC -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Introduction PEDIGREES OF KNOWLEDGE ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD -- Chapter 1 ARBORESCENT CULTURE WRITING AND NOT WRITING RACEHORSE PEDIGREES -- Chapter 2 WHEN BLOOD MATTERS: MAKING KINSHIP IN COLONIAL KENYA -- Chapter 3 THE WEB OF KIN: AN ONLINE GENEALOGICAL MACHINE -- Chapter 4 GENES, MOBILITIES AND THE ENCLOSURES OF CAPITAL: CONTESTING ANCESTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN ICELAND -- Chapter 5 SKIPPING A GENERATION AND ASSISTING CONCEPTION -- Chapter 6 ‘FAMILY TREES’ AMONG THE KAMEA OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA: A NON-GENEALOGICAL APPROACH TO IMAGINING RELATEDNESS -- Chapter 7 KNOWLEDGE AS KINSHIP: MUTABLE ESSENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSMISSION ON THE RAI COAST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- Chapter 8 STORIES AGAINST CLASSIFICATION: TRANSPORT, WAYFARING AND THE INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 9 REVEALING AND OBSCURING RIVERS’S PEDIGREES: BIOLOGICAL INHERITANCE AND KINSHIP IN MADAGASCAR -- Chapter 10 THE GIFT AND THE GIVEN: THREE NANO-ESSAYS ON KINSHIP AND MAGIC -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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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.

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