"This collection of ten essays is the latest major work to call for
renewed attention to the topic of kinship], especially with respect
to contemporary questions of how cultures relate to nature... It]
is a welcome addition to the ongoing revival of kinship, and will
stimulate further debate among its many participants." Ethnobiology
Letters
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 model-in particular, ideas
concerning sequence, essence, and transmission-structure 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
anthropology's 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.
Sandra Bamford is an Associate Professor at the University of
Toronto. Her research focuses on Papua New Guinea and the West,
with an emphasis on kinship, gender, landscape, environmentalism,
globalization, and biotechnology. In addition to having authored
several journal articles and book chapters, her most recent
publications include: "Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on
Life and Biotechnology" (University of California Press, 2006) and
"Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social
Change in Melanesia" (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).
James Leach is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Aberdeen. Published works include "Creative Land: Place and
Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea" (2003), "Reite
Plants: An Ethnobotanical Study in Tok Pisin and English" (2010,
with Porer Nombo), and "Recognising and Translating Knowledge, "
2012 "Anthropological Forum" Special Issue, ed with R. Davis).
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