Kinship and Beyond The Genealogical Model Reconsidered [Paperback]

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 species. The authors explore the influences of the genealogical model of kinship in wider social theory and examine anthropologys ability to provide a unique framework capable of bridging the social and natural sciences. In doing so, this volume brings fresh new perspectives to bear on contemporary theories concerning biotechnology and its effect upon social life.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1.Pedigrees of Knowledge: Anthropology and the Genealogical Method
Sandra BamfordandJames Leach

Chapter 2.Aborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Race Horse Pedigrees
Rebecca Cassidy

Chapter 3.When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial Kenya
Teresa Holmes

Chapter 4.The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine
Gisli P?lsson

Chapter 5.Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its Applications in Iceland
Hilary Cunningham

Chapter 6.Skipping a Generation and Assisted Kinship
Jeanette Edwards

Chapter 7.Family Trees among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness
Sandra Bamford

Chapter 8.Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significlã&