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Title Kinship and beyond : the genealogical model reconsidered / edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; v. 15
Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 15.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Kinship.
Genealogy.
Human population genetics.
kinship.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Genealogy
Human population genetics
Kinship
Verwandtschaft
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Anthropologie
Form Electronic book
Author Bamford, Sandra C., 1962-
Leach, James, 1969-
LC no. 2008032691
ISBN 9781845458966
1845458966
1282627538
9781282627536
9786612627538
6612627530