Ethics of Kinship

Ethnographic Inquiries

AvJames Faubion

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves—as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his or her own alterity as the touchstone of the exploration of an ethnographically and historically specific ethics of kinship. Together, the chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of the entanglement of the subject of kinship with the subject of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, desire. The chapters speak eloquently to the sometimes liberating stories that we cannot help but keep telling about our kin and ourselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-12-14
Mått:154 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:445 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Alterations
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742509566

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

James Faubion is associate professor of anthropology at Rice University.

Recensioner i media

The much desired reawakening of interest by anthropologists in the topic of kinship, central to the history of their discipline, has depended on making coherent use of the outpouring of rich culture theories of recent years concerning the concept of the self, gender, issues of subjectivity, and finally, ethics. This compelling and highly readable volume of interwoven narratives and analyses not only sets the terms of this renaissance but also the kinds of debates by which it could be sustained.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward and Anthropology of KinshipChapter 2 Caring and Being Cared For: Displacing Marriage, Kinship, Gender, and SexualityChapter 3 Rainbow Family, Rainbow Nation: Reflections on Relatives and Relational Dynamics in TrinidadChapter 4 Personalizing It:Kafala, Kinship, Abandoned Children, and FamilyChapter 5 A Kinship of One's OwnChapter 6 Kousi Oda Pannu (Kousi's Daughter)Chapter 7 The Ethics of Affect: The Public Policies of Intimacy in the Bloomsbury Group andSammy and Rosie Get LaidChapter 8 This Week the Blue Room: Locating Kinship in a Split-level HomeChapter 9 What We Bring to the Table: The Means of Imagination in an African-American FamilyChapter 10 "Like Family to Me": Families of Origin, Families of Choice, and Class MobilityChapter 11 Be/longingsChapter 12 Family I Imagine