James Faubion is associate professor of anthropology at Rice University.

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.

• 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

James Faubion is associate professor of anthropology at Rice University.

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.

• 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