Amelie Baumann works as a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a member of the CRC Affective Societies. She completed her doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen in 2020 and was part of the interdisciplinary research project Reconfiguring Anonymity, funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation. Her research focuses on medical anthropology and kinship studies.

• Introduction; Contextualising donor conception and anonymity; Research and analysis; The right to know; Public stories and new networks; Micropolitics of not-knowing; When the cat has been let out of the bag; Connections you might (not) make; Infrastructuring DNA; Conclusion; References; List of abbreviations; List of figures; Acknowledgements.

Amelie Baumann works as a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a member of the CRC Affective Societies. She completed her doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen in 2020 and was part of the interdisciplinary research project Reconfiguring Anonymity, funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation. Her research focuses on medical anthropology and kinship studies.

• Introduction; Contextualising donor conception and anonymity; Research and analysis; The right to know; Public stories and new networks; Micropolitics of not-knowing; When the cat has been let out of the bag; Connections you might (not) make; Infrastructuring DNA; Conclusion; References; List of abbreviations; List of figures; Acknowledgements.