
Critical Kinship Studies
By: Charlotte Krolokke (Editor), Lene Myong (Editor), Stine Willum Adrian (Editor), Tine Tjornhoj-Thomsen (Editor)
Hardcover | 13 February 2016
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In a series of well-crafted case studies based on empirical research throughout the Eastern hemisphere, this edited collection brilliantly demonstrates that reproductive technologies and adoption are integral to today's political and economic inequality and the biopolitics of migration. The volume leaves us in no doubt of the urgent need for the critical kinship studies for which the editors call. -- Charis Thompson, Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley
By the mid-1980s, kinship studies in anthropology looked as dated and irrelevant as totemism. But by 2001, they had been reinvented and rejuvenated in such works as Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon's edited collection, Relative Values (CH, Nov'02, 40-1635), and Maurice Godelier's The Metamorphoses of Kinship (CH, Sep'12, 50-0366). Classic topics such as patrilineal clans disappeared, and research on migration, immigrant communities, and transnationalism demonstrated the significance of kinship. New research on gender, adoption, reproductive technology, new family forms, and same-sex marriage burgeoned. These innovations are linked to the turn of anthropologists toward research into their own societies. This collection carries innovation further. It emphasizes interdisciplinary research and what the editors call "mobility": transnational movement of people, reproductive substances, and kinship understandings as well as international communication through new media. The contributions show how global economic and political inequalities are linked to mobility. The 18 essays are organized into four sections: kinship as substance, as consumption, as political economy, and reimagined. They are all based on field research around the globe and cover such topics as surrogacy, transnational adoption, transnational egg and sperm donation, creation of fictive kinship, and cultural notions of animals as kin. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All college and university libraries. * CHOICE *
ISBN: 9781783484164
ISBN-10: 1783484160
Series: Rowman and Littlefield International - Intersections
Published: 13th February 2016
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 334
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
For Ages: 18+ years old
For Grades: 13 - 17
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24 x 16 x 3
Weight (kg): 0.66
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