Kinship and Beyond : : The Genealogical Model Reconsidered / / ed. by Sandra Bamford, James Leach.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Astuti, Rita,; Bamford, Sandra,; Cassidy, Rebecca,; Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de,; Cunningham, Hilary,; Edwards, Jeanette,; Holmes, J. Teresa,; Ingold, Tim,; Leach, James,; Pálsson, Gísli,
• HerausgeberIn: Bamford, Sandra,; Leach, James,
• 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 ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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 model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure 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 species. The authors explore the influences of the genealogical model of kinship in wider social theory and examine anthropology’s ability to provide a unique framework capable of bridging the “social” and “natural” sciences. In doing so, this volume brings fresh new perspectives to bear on contemporary theories concerning biotechnology and its effect upon social life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Introduction PEDIGREES OF KNOWLEDGE ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD -- Chapter 1 ARBORESCENT CULTURE WRITING AND NOT WRITING RACEHORSE PEDIGREES -- Chapter 2 WHEN BLOOD MATTERS: MAKING KINSHIP IN COLONIAL KENYA -- Chapter 3 THE WEB OF KIN: AN ONLINE GENEALOGICAL MACHINE -- Chapter 4 GENES, MOBILITIES AND THE ENCLOSURES OF CAPITAL: CONTESTING ANCESTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN ICELAND -- Chapter 5 SKIPPING A GENERATION AND ASSISTING CONCEPTION -- Chapter 6 ‘FAMILY TREES’ AMONG THE KAMEA OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA: A NON-GENEALOGICAL APPROACH TO IMAGINING RELATEDNESS -- Chapter 7 KNOWLEDGE AS KINSHIP: MUTABLE ESSENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSMISSION ON THE RAI COAST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- Chapter 8 STORIES AGAINST CLASSIFICATION: TRANSPORT, WAYFARING AND THE INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 9 REVEALING AND OBSCURING RIVERS’S PEDIGREES: BIOLOGICAL INHERITANCE AND KINSHIP IN MADAGASCAR -- Chapter 10 THE GIFT AND THE GIVEN: THREE NANO-ESSAYS ON KINSHIP AND MAGIC -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX