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Kinship and beyond : the genealogical model reconsidered / / edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach



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Titolo: Kinship and beyond : the genealogical model reconsidered / / edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn books, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina: 306.83
Soggetto topico: Kinship
Genealogy
Human population genetics
Classificazione: LB 41000
Altri autori: BamfordSandra C. <1962->  
LeachJames <1969->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Title page-Kinship and Beyond; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1-Arborescent Culture; Chapter 2-When Blood Matters; Chapter 3-The Web of Kin; Chapter 4-Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of Capital; Chapter 5-Skipping a Generation and Assisting Conception; Chapter 6-'Family Trees' among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 7-Knowledge as Kinship; Chapter 8-Stories Against Classification; Chapter 9-Revealing and Obscuring Rivers's Pedigrees; Chapter 10-The Gift and the Given; List of Contributors; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 sp
Titolo autorizzato: Kinship and beyond  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-85745-640-7
1-282-62753-8
9786612627538
1-84545-896-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826851503321
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Serie: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; ; v. 15.