The Owners Of Kinship

Author : Luiz Costa
Publisher : Malinowski Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780997367591
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Owners of Kinship written by Luiz Costa and published by Malinowski Monographs. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an "owner" and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationship is centered around the bond created between the feeder and the fed. Building on anthropological studies of the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of food and its role in establishing relations of asymmetrical mutuality and kinship, this book breaks theoretical ground for studies in Amazonia and beyond. By investigating how the feeding relation traverses Kanamari society--from the relation between women and the pets they raise, shaman and familiar spirit, mother and child, chiefs and followers, to those between the Brazilian state and the Kanamari--The Owners of Kinship reveals how the mutuality of kinship is determined by the asymmetry of ownership.

Author : Kathryn A. Mariner
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520299558
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contingent Kinship written by Kathryn A. Mariner and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States. With a unique focus on the role that social workers and other professionals play in mediating relationships between expectant mothers and prospective adopters, Kathryn A. Mariner develops the concept of “intimate speculation,” a complex assemblage of investment, observation, and anticipation that shapes the adoption process into an elaborate mechanism for creating, dissolving, and exchanging imagined futures. Shifting the emphasis from adoption’s outcome to its conditions of possibility, this insightful ethnography places the practice of domestic adoption within a temporal, economic, and affective framework in order to interrogate the social inequality and power dynamics that render adoption—and the families it produces—possible.

Author : Eugenia Kim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328987825
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kinship of Secrets written by Eugenia Kim and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart"--

Author : Marc Brightman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785330837
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ownership and Nurture written by Marc Brightman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.

Author : Leire Olabarria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108584918
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt written by Leire Olabarria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Olabarria uses memorial stelae of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (ca.2150–1650 BCE) as her primary evidence. Contextualising these monuments within their social and physical landscapes, she proposes a dynamic way to explore kin groups through sources that have been considered static. The volume offers three case studies of kin groups at the beginning, peak, and decline of their developmental cycles respectively. They demonstrate how ancient Egyptian evidence can be used for cross-cultural comparison of key anthropological topics, such as group formation, patronage, and rites of passage.

Author : Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249380
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragile Families written by Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragile Families examines the precarious position of Latina/o families who are simultaneously caught up in systems of child welfare and immigration enforcement, focusing on the central role of child welfare decision-making in producing and maintaining boundaries of citizenship, race, and national belonging in the United States.

Author : Linda Stone
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623916
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Gender written by Linda Stone and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for undergraduate courses in kinship, gender, or the two combined, Linda Stone's Kinship and Gender is the product of years of teaching. The topic of kinship comes alive when linked to gender issues; conversely, the cross-cultural study o...

Author : Raymond Thomas Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521345224
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Class in the West Indies written by Raymond Thomas Smith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extensive family and kinship ties of West Indians in Jamaica and Guyana.

Author : Sarah Franklin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383225
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relative Values written by Sarah Franklin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Anna-Lisa Cox
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316075698
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stronger Kinship written by Anna-Lisa Cox and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.