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Köp båda 2 för 870 krThis superb anthology extends the emphasis on technology that has become such a prominent feature of much recent anthropological work on kinshipIn this richly ethnographic text, the most familiar problems produce the most unusual answersEach chapter brilliantly combines kinship as a matrix with kinship as a tool, using ethnographic examples that leap off the page. Journal of Anthropological Research
Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at Manchester University. She has published widely on the implications of new reproductive technologies for kinship both ethnographically and theoretically. She is author of Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (Oxford University Press, 2000), co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception (Routledge 2nd ed., 1999) and co-editor of Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science (Cambridge University Press 2011). She directed the European-funded project Public Understanding of Genetics: a Cross- Cultural and Ethnographic Study of the new genetics and social identity.
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Matter in Kinship Jeanette Edwards Chapter 1. Knowing and Relating: Kinship, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the New Genetics Joan Bestard Chapter 2. Imagining Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Family, Kinship and Local Thinking in Lithuania Auksuole Cepaitiene Chapter 3. Eating Genes and Raising People: Kinship Thinking and Genetically Modified Food in the North of England Cathrine Degnen Chapter 4. The Family Body: Persons, Bodies and Resemblance Diana Marre and Joan Bestard Chapter 5. The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on Kinship Anne Cadoret Chapter 6. Corpo-real Identities: Perspectives from a Gypsy Community Nathalie Manrique Chapter 7. Incest, Embodiment, Genes and Kinship Enric Porqueres i Gen and Jrme Wilgaux (France) Chapter 8. Loving Mothers at Work: Raising Others Children and Building Families with the Intention to Love and Take Care Eniko Demny Chapter 9. Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian Legislation Marit Melhuus and Signe Howell Chapter 10. Fields of Post-human Kinship Ben Campbell Chapter 11. Are Genes Good to Think With? Carles Salazar Notes on Contributors Bibliography Author Index Subject Index