Relative values : reconfiguring kinship studies / edited by Sarah Franklin & Susan McKinnon.

Other author Franklin, Sarah, 1960-
Other author McKinnon, Susan, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Descriptionviii, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Substantivism, antisubstantivism, and anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten -- The ethnography of creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American beaver / Gillian Feely-Harnik -- Making kinship, with an old reproductive technology / Mary Bouquet -- Kinship in hypertext: transubstantiating fatherhood and information flow in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich -- Kinship, controversy, and the sharing of substance: the race/class politics of blood transfusion / Kath Weston -- Strategic naturalizing: kinship in an infertility clinic / Charis Thompson -- Self-conscious kinship: some contested values in Norwegian transnational adoption / Signe Howell -- Practicing kinship in rural north China / Yunxiang Yan -- The shift in kinship studies in France: the case of grandparenting / Martine Segalen -- The economies in kinship and the paternity of culture: origin stories in kinship theory / Susan McKinnon -- Biologization revisited: kinship theory in the context of the new biologies / Sarah Franklin -- Blood/kinship, governmentality, and the cultures of order in colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper -- "We're going to tell these people who they really are": science and relatedness / Jonathan Marks -- Genealogical dis-ease: where hereditary abnormality, biomedical explanation, and family responsibility meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue Taussig -- Ambivalence in kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz -- Cutting the ties that bind: the sacrifice of Abraham and patriarchal kinship / Carol Delaney -- To forget their tongue, their name, and their whole relation: captivity, extra-tribal adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner Strong.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001040472
ISBN0822327864 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822327961 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN487 .R45 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold