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European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
Jeanette Edwards (Ed.)
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Description for European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
Paperback. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and 'belonging' in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Editor(s): Edwards, Jeanette; Salazar, Carles. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; TCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
This superb anthology extends the emphasis on technology that has become such a prominent feature of much recent anthropological work on kinship...In this richly ethnographic text, the most familiar problems produce the most unusual answers...Each chapter brilliantly combines kinship as a matrix with kinship as a tool, using ethnographic examples that leap off the page. Journal of Anthropological Research Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of ... Read more
This superb anthology extends the emphasis on technology that has become such a prominent feature of much recent anthropological work on kinship...In this richly ethnographic text, the most familiar problems produce the most unusual answers...Each chapter brilliantly combines kinship as a matrix with kinship as a tool, using ethnographic examples that leap off the page. Journal of Anthropological Research Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857453655
SKU
V9780857453655
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About Jeanette Edwards (Ed.)
Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at Manchester University. She has published widely on the implications of new reproductive technologies for kinship both ethnographically and theoretically. She is author of Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (Oxford University Press, 2000) and co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception ... Read more
Reviews for European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
This superb anthology extends the emphasis on technology that has become such a prominent feature of much recent anthropological work on kinship - In this richly ethnographic text, the most familiar problems produce the most unusual answers - Each chapter brilliantly combines kinship as a matrix with kinship as a tool, using ethnographic examples that leap off the page. ... Read more