European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology / / ed. by Jeanette Edwards, Carles Salazar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bestard, Joan,; Cadoret, Anne,; Campbell, Ben,; Degnen, Cathrine,; Demény, Enikő,; Edwards, Jeanette,; Gené, Enric Porqueres i,; Howell, Signe,; Manrique, Nathalie,; Marre, Diana,; Melhuus, Marit,; Salazar, Carles,; Wilgaux, Jérôme,; Čepaitienė, Auksuolė,
• HerausgeberIn: Edwards, Jeanette,; Salazar, Carles,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: The Matter in Kinship --; 1. Knowing and Relating: Kinship, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the New Genetics --; 2. Imagining Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Family, Kinship and ‘Local Thinking’ in Lithuania --; 3. Eating Genes and Raising People: Kinship Thinking and Genetically Modified Food in the North of England --; 4. The Family Body: Persons, Bodies and Resemblance --; 5. The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on Kinship --; 6. Corpo-real Identities: Perspectives from a Gypsy Community --; 7. Incest, Embodiment, Genes and Kinship --; 8. ‘Loving Mothers’ at Work: Raising Others’ Children and Building Families with the Intention to Love and Take Care --; 9. Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian Legislation --; 10. Fields of Post-human Kinship --; 11. Are Genes Good to Think With? --; Notes on Contributors --; Bibliography --; Author Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845458928; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845458928
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jeanette Edwards, Carles Salazar.

Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ‘the new kinship’, this interest was stimulated by the ‘new genetics’ and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and ‘belonging’ in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modified food an issue? Are ‘genes’ and ‘blood’ interchangeable? It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a ‘geneticization’ of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of ‘nature’ and of what is ‘natural’. But, they also illustrate the complexity of contemporary kinship thinking in Europe and the continued interconnectedness of biological and sociological understandings of relatedness and the relationship between nature and nurture.