Kinship and beyond
Bamford, Sandra C
Kinship and beyond : the genealogical model reconsidered / Sandra C Bamford; - New York :Berghahn Books, 2009. - viii, 292 pages 24cm. - Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality, v. 15. .
Title page-Kinship and Beyond; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1-Arborescent Culture; Chapter 2-When Blood Matters; Chapter 3-The Web of Kin; Chapter 4-Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of Capital; Chapter 5-Skipping a Generation and Assisting Conception; Chapter 6-'Family Trees' among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 7-Knowledge as Kinship; Chapter 8-Stories Against Classification; Chapter 9-Revealing and Obscuring Rivers's Pedigrees; Chapter 10-The Gift and the Given; List of Contributors; Index.
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 modelin particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmissionstructure 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 sp
9780857456397
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Social Sciences
Culture and institutions
Kinship.
Kinship.
Human population genetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
306.83 BAM
Kinship and beyond : the genealogical model reconsidered / Sandra C Bamford; - New York :Berghahn Books, 2009. - viii, 292 pages 24cm. - Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality, v. 15. .
Title page-Kinship and Beyond; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1-Arborescent Culture; Chapter 2-When Blood Matters; Chapter 3-The Web of Kin; Chapter 4-Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of Capital; Chapter 5-Skipping a Generation and Assisting Conception; Chapter 6-'Family Trees' among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 7-Knowledge as Kinship; Chapter 8-Stories Against Classification; Chapter 9-Revealing and Obscuring Rivers's Pedigrees; Chapter 10-The Gift and the Given; List of Contributors; Index.
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 modelin particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmissionstructure 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 sp
9780857456397
Raghav Books Private Limited :A-184 Nand Gram Ghaziabad
Social Sciences
Culture and institutions
Kinship.
Kinship.
Human population genetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
306.83 BAM
