Born and Bred is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of
England. At the heart of the cotton industry in the nineteenth
century, this Lancashire town has undergone deep social and
economic change during the twentieth, yet it remains a hive of
social activity. The book focuses on the way in which the past
continues to figure in people's talk about the place and about each
other, but it questions the claim that such a preoccupation is
simply due to nostalgia for better times. Narratives about the
past, like narratives about the kind of place Bacup is, mobilize
cultural understandings of kinship, which are also deployed when
people talk about the implications of new reproductive
technologies. Jeanette Edwards argues that kinship is resonant in
the way in which residents of the town belong to pasts, places and
persons. She challenges the idea that kinship is no longer an
organizing principle in post-industrial Western society.
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