Relative Values- PB : Reconfiguring Kinship Studies

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