Vital relations : modernity and the persistent life of kinship / edited by Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell.

Other author McKinnon, Susan, 1949-
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationSanta Fe : SAR Press, School for Advanced Research Press, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Descriptionix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSchool for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series. ^A793576
Contents The difference kinship makes / Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell -- Kinship within and beyond the "movement of progressive societies" / Susan McKinnon -- Transnational family capitalism : producing "made in Italy" in China / Sylvia J. Yanagisako -- "I am a petroleum product" : making kinship work on the Patagonian frontier / Elana Shever -- Ghosts, commensality, and scuba diving : tracing kinship and sociality in clinical pathology labs and blood banks in Penang / Janet Carsten -- On the road again : movement, marriage, mestizaje, and the race of kinship / Barbara Bodenhorn -- "This body is our body" : Vishwakarma Puja, the social debts of kinship, and theories of materiality in a neoliberal shipyard / Laura Bear -- Placing the dead : kinship, slavery, and free labor in pre- and post-Civil War America / Gillian Feeley-Harnik -- The re-enchantment of kinship / Fenella Cannell -- Kinship, modernity, and the immodern / Michael Lambek -- Kinship and catastrophe : global warming and the rhetoric of descent / Danilyn Rutherford.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-326) and index.
Genre/formCross-cultural studies.
LCCN 2012038509
ISBN9781938645013 (paperback : alk. paper)
ISBN1938645014 (paperback : alk. paper)

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