Relative values: reconfiguring kinship studies

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The essays in this volume offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. The contributors chart a new future for kinship studies, addressing topics that range from the commodification of kinship through to trans-national adoption.

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

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Publication Date:2001.

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Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham, NC
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

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Description:viii, 519 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:0822327864, 9780822327868, 0822327961, 9780822327967
oclc:ocm47625330
LC Classification:GN487
Dewey Decimal:306.83

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…