Family beyond family the varieties of kinship experience / edited by Parker Shipton and James P. Ito-Adler.
| Other author | Shipton, Parker MacDonald. |
| Other author | Ito-Adler, James P. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn, 2025. |
| Description | ix, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Kinship in shifting perspectives (or : brother, can you paradigm?) / Parker Shipton -- Genealogy and other essential fictions : the family in essence and consensus / James W. Fernandez -- Only connect : the challenge of being born human / John Edward Terrell -- Fictive fatherhood / Nicholas W. Townsend -- Sponsoring careers : a person-centered view of fictive kinship pragmatics / Robert A. LeVine -- "Iron brothers" and "dear customers" : fictive kinship and social change in China / Chun-Yi Sum and Jason Jiansheng Li -- Masquerading rites of passage : fictive marriage in Iran / Shahla Haeri -- Patrilineality and its alternatives in the Islamic Middle East : Milk, Umma, Sect, and Tariqa / Charles Lindholm -- Meta-kinship : nominal relatives as fact, fiction, and factual fiction / Parker Shipton -- Mechanical automata and performative kinship : repair and relatedness through "as if" illusions / Ellen Schattschneider -- Old worlds from fragments : Holocaust family memory in the age of ancestral DNA / Mark Auslander -- Conclusion. Coda / James P. Ito-Adler and Parker Shipton. |
| Abstract | "Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range from the purely abstract to the bricks and mortar of college fraternities and sororities. Family Beyond Family observes and examines the principles and purposes of such fabricated connections"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024026785 |
| ISBN | 9781805397984 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (adobe pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |