Kinship and beyond : the genealogical model reconsidered

Bamford, Sandra C., 1962- (Added Author). Leach, James, 1969- (Added Author).

Summary: 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 modelin particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmissionstructure 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.

Record details

ISBN: 6612627530
ISBN: 9786612627538
ISBN: 9781282627536
ISBN: 1282627538
ISBN: 0857456393
ISBN: 9780857456397
ISBN: 9781845454227
ISBN: 1845454227
ISBN: 1845458966
ISBN: 9781845458966
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.