: the genealogical model reconsidered Bamford, Sandra C creator Bamford, Sandra C text New York :Berghahn Books 2009 monographic eng

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viii, 292 pages 24cm. 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 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. / Sandra C Bamford; 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 9780857456397 :Raghav Books Private Limited :A-184 Nand Gram Ghaziabad 211201 20211206155931.0