Relative Values

by Franklin, Sarah; McKinnon, Susan; Carsten, Janet (CON); Feeley-Harnik, Gillian (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822327967
• ISBN10: 0822327961
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This is one of the few books which crosses disciplinary terrains with clear and brilliant consequences. It not only brings anthropology into every sphere, but shows that fundamental thinking on life and kinship under conditions of globalization compel us to accept and work with a radical remapping of knowledge. This text considers these issues with prismatic illumination and is unprecedented in its success."--Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies	1	(28)
Sarah Franklin
Susan McKinnon
PART I Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext
Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism	29	(25)
Janet Carsten
The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver	54	(31)
Gillian Feeley-Harnik
Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology	85	(31)
Mary Bouquet
Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life	116	(31)
Stefan Helmreich
PART II Kinship Negotiations: What's Biology Not/Got to Do with It
Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/Class Politics of Blood Transfusion	147	(28)
Kath Weston
Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic	175	(28)
Charis Thompson
Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption	203	(21)
Signe Howell
Practicing Kinship in Rural North China	224	(22)
Yunxiang Yan
The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting	246	(31)
Martine Segalen
PART III Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship
The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory	277	(25)
Susan McKinnon
Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies	302	(27)
Sarah Franklin
PART IV 'R' Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies
Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa	329	(26)
Melbourne Tapper
``We're Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are'': Science and Relatedness	355	(29)
Jonathan Marks
Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet	384	(29)
Rayna Rapp
Deborah Heath
Karen-Sue Taussig
PART V Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship
Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s	413	(32)
Michael G. Peletz
Cutting the Ties That Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship	445	(23)
Carol Delaney
To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act	468	(27)
Pauline Turner Strong
Contributors	495	(4)
Index	499