The essays in "Relative Values" draw on new work in anthropology,
science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and
postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship
theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant
theoretical essays, the contributors--a group of internationally
recognized scholars--examine both the history of kinship theory and
its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied a
central place within the discipline of anthropology and moving
beyond them.
Ideas about kinship are vital not only to understanding but also
to forming many of the practices and innovations of contemporary
society. How do the cultural logics of contemporary biopolitics,
commodification, and globalization intersect with kinship practices
and theories? In what ways do kinship analogies inform scientific
and clinical practices; and what happens to kinship when it is
created in such unfamiliar sites as biogenetic labs, new
reproductive technology clinics, and the computers of artificial
life scientists? How does kinship constitute--and get constituted
by--the relations of power that draw lines of hierarchy and
equality, exclusion and inclusion, ambivalence and violence? The
contributors assess the implications for kinship of such phenomena
as blood transfusions, adoption across national borders, genetic
support groups, photography, and the new reproductive technologies
while ranging from rural China to mid-century Africa to
contemporary Norway and the United States. Addressing these and
other timely issues, "Relative Values" injects new life into one of
anthropology's most important disciplinary traditions.
Posing these and other timely questions, "Relative Values" injects
an important interdisciplinary curiosity into one of anthropology's
most important disciplinary traditions.
"Contributors." Mary Bouquet, Janet Carsten, Charis Thompson
Cussins, Carol Delaney, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Sarah Franklin,
Deborah Heath, Stefan Helmreich, Signe Howell, Jonathan Marks,
Susan McKinnon, Michael G. Peletz, Rayna Rapp, Martine Segalen,
Pauline Turner Strong, Melbourne Tapper, Karen-Sue Taussig, Kath
Weston, Yunxiang Yan
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