Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality, cartea 15

Autor Sandra C. Bamford Editat de Sandra Bamford, James Leach
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 2009
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.
Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality

Preț: 72986 lei

Preț vechi: 94787 lei
-23% Nou

Puncte Express: 1095

Preț estimativ în valută:
13969 14560$ 11629£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 04-18 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781845454227
ISBN-10: 1845454227
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 159 x 24 x 236 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
Seria Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality


Notă biografică

Sandra Bamford is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Papua New Guinea and the West, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, landscape, environmentalism, globalization, and biotechnology. In addition to having authored several journal articles and book chapters, her most recent publications include: Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology (University of California Press, 2006) and Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia (Carolina Academic Press, 2007). James Leach is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has undertaken long-term field research in rural Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and in the UK with people utilising new technologies for collaborative knowledge production. Published work includes Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (Berghahn Books, 2003), Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (ed., with Lawrence Kalinoe, Sean Kingston Publishing, 2004), and Freedom Imagined: Morality and Aesthetics in Open Source Software DesignA" (Ethnos 2009).

Cuprins

Introduction Chapter 1. Arborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Racehorse Pedigrees Rebecca Cassidy Chapter 2. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial Kenya J. Teresa Holmes Chapter 3. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine Gisli Palsson Chapter 4. Genes, Mobilities, and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its applicators in Iceland Hilary Cunningham Chapter 5. Skipping a Generation and Assisting Conception Jeanette Edwards Chapter 6. 'Family Trees' Among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness Sandra Bamford Chapter 7. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significance of Transmission of the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea James Leach Chapter 8. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge Tim Ingold Chapter 9. Revealing and Obscuring River's Pedigrees: Biological Inheritance and Kinship in Madagascar Rita Astuti Chapter 10. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on Kinship and Magic Eduardo Viveiros de Castro List of Figures List of Contributors Index