Relative Values

Sarah Franklin is Reader in Cultural Anthropology for the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, England.

"This important collection of inter-disciplinary essays on the new kinship shows diverse ways that relative values, shifting solidarities, and partial connections of truth and affect today create the ties that bind."--Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies / Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnonPart I. Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver / Gillian Feeley-Harnik3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology / Mary Bouquet4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life / Stefan HelmreichPart II. Kinship Negotiations: What’s Biology Not/Got to Do with It5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/Class Politics of Blood Transfusion / Kath Weston6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic / Charis Thompson7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption / Signe Howell8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China / Yunxiang Yan9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting / Martine SegalenPart III. Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory / Susan McKinnon11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies / Sarah FranklinPart IV. ‘R’ Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper13. “We’re Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are”: Science and Relatedness / Jonathan Marks14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Heredity Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue TaussigPart V. Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz16. Cutting the Ties that Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship / Carol Delaney17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner StrongContributorsIndex