TY - BOOK AU - Bamford, Sandra C AU - Bamford, Sandra C TI - Kinship and beyond : : the genealogical model reconsidered T2 - Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality, v. 15 SN - 9780857456397 U1 - 306.83 BAM PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - :Berghahn Books, KW - Social Sciences KW - Culture and institutions KW - Kinship KW - Human population genetics KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General KW - Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -