Strathern

Kinship, Law and the Unexpected : Relatives Are Always a Surprise

Preface vii PART ONE. DIVIDED ORIGINS Introduction: Divided Origins 3(1) The Child's Two Bodies 4(2) A Tool 6(3) Divided Origins 9(6) Relatives Are Always a Surprise: Biotechnology in an Age of Individualism 15(18) An Age of Individualism 15(2) Adding Debate 17(3) Individual and Common Interests 20(2) Recombinant Families 22(3) Thinking About Relatives 25(8) Embedded Science 33(17) Isolated Knowledge 35(2) Relations Everywhere 37(6) Kinship Uncovered 43(3) Caveat 46(4) Emergent Properties 50(42) I 51(7) Multiple Origins 51(4) An Analogy 55(3) II 58(9) Offspring into Property 58(3) Information into Knowledge 61(3) Relations into Relations 64(3) III 67(14) Kinship and Knowledge 67(4) The Informational Family 71(10) PART TWO. THE ARITHMETIC OF OWNERSHIP Introduction: The Arithmetic of Ownership 81(1) Conception by Intent 82(1) Leaving `Knowledge' to One Side 83(4) The Arithmetic of Ownership 87(5) The Patent and the Malanggan 92(19) Introducing the Body 92(2) Enchantment 94(2) Return to New Ireland--1 96(3) Patenting Technology 99(5) Return to New Ireland--2 104(7) Losing (out on) Intellectual Resources 111(24) I 111(5) The Terms of an Agreement 112(2) Tradition and Modernity 114(2) II 116(13) Body Ownership 118(2) Whole Persons: Things 120(5) Part Persons: Agents 125(4) III 129(6) Decontextualisation 130(3) Intellectual Resources 133(2) Divided Origins and the Arithmetic of Ownership 135(28) I 135(3) II 138(11) Counting People: Murik 138(2) Analogous Worlds 140(2) Counting Ancestors: Omie 142(2) Owners and Makers 144(3) Propagating Images 147(2) III 149(11) Intellectual Products? 149(2) Ownership of Persons? 151(4) Single and Multiple Origins 155(2) Applied Maths 157(3) IV 160(3) Notes 163(38) References 201(16) Author Index 217(3) Subject Index 220