Politics and kinship : a reader
Political science Kinship e-böcker
Routledge
2022
EISBN 9781003003595
Introduction : politics and kinship / Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber.
Introduction to African political systems / Meyer Fortes and Edward E. Evans-Pritchard.
Kinship within and beyond the 'Movement of Progressive Societies' / Susan McKinnon.
Kinship weaponized : representations of kinship and binary othering in U.S. military anthropology / Thomas Zitelmann.
Father state, motherland, and the birth of modern Turkey / Carol Delaney.
The village headman in British Central Africa : introduction / Max Gluckman.
State kinning and kinning the state in Serbian elder care programs / Tatjana Thelen, André Thiemann and Duška Roth.
Doubt is the mother of all inventions : DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting / Claudia Fonseca.
The algebra of genocide / Diane Nelson.
Carnal knowledge and imperial power : gender and morality in the making of race / Ann Laura Stoler.
Genomics en route : ancestry, heritage and the politics of identity across the Black Atlantic / Katharina Schramm.
Making merit : the Indian Institutes of Technology and the social life of caste / Ajantha Subramanian.
The origins of the family, property, and the state / Friedrich Engels.
Including our own / Jeanette Edwards and Marilyn Strathern.
Parenthood and social reproduction / Esther Goody.
No school without foster families in northern Benin : a social historical approach / Erdmute Alber.
Defining parents, making citizens : nationality and citizenship in transnational surrogacy / Daisy Deomampo.
"Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often thought to have become separated during the process of modernisation. Tracing how this notion of separation becomes idealized and translated into various contexts, this book sheds light on its epistemological limitations. Combining otherwise-distinct lines of discussion within political anthropology and kinship studies, the selection of texts covers a broad range of intersecting topics that range from military strategy, DNA testing, and child fostering, to practices of kinning the state. Beginning with the study of politics, the first part of this volume looks at how its separation from kinship came to be considered a 'modern' phenomenon, with significant consequences. The second part starts from kinship, showing how it was made into a separate and apolitical field - an idea that would soon travel and be translated globally into policies. The third part turns to reproductions through various transmissions and future making projects. Overall, the volume offers a fundamental critique of the epistemological separation of politics and kinship, and its shortcomings for teaching and research. Featuring contributions from a broad range of regional, temporal and theoretical backgrounds, it allows for critical engagement with knowledge production about the entanglement of politics and kinship. The different traditions and contemporary approaches represented make this book an essential resource for researchers, instructors and students of anthropology"--
Introduction to African political systems / Meyer Fortes and Edward E. Evans-Pritchard.
Kinship within and beyond the 'Movement of Progressive Societies' / Susan McKinnon.
Kinship weaponized : representations of kinship and binary othering in U.S. military anthropology / Thomas Zitelmann.
Father state, motherland, and the birth of modern Turkey / Carol Delaney.
The village headman in British Central Africa : introduction / Max Gluckman.
State kinning and kinning the state in Serbian elder care programs / Tatjana Thelen, André Thiemann and Duška Roth.
Doubt is the mother of all inventions : DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting / Claudia Fonseca.
The algebra of genocide / Diane Nelson.
Carnal knowledge and imperial power : gender and morality in the making of race / Ann Laura Stoler.
Genomics en route : ancestry, heritage and the politics of identity across the Black Atlantic / Katharina Schramm.
Making merit : the Indian Institutes of Technology and the social life of caste / Ajantha Subramanian.
The origins of the family, property, and the state / Friedrich Engels.
Including our own / Jeanette Edwards and Marilyn Strathern.
Parenthood and social reproduction / Esther Goody.
No school without foster families in northern Benin : a social historical approach / Erdmute Alber.
Defining parents, making citizens : nationality and citizenship in transnational surrogacy / Daisy Deomampo.
"Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often thought to have become separated during the process of modernisation. Tracing how this notion of separation becomes idealized and translated into various contexts, this book sheds light on its epistemological limitations. Combining otherwise-distinct lines of discussion within political anthropology and kinship studies, the selection of texts covers a broad range of intersecting topics that range from military strategy, DNA testing, and child fostering, to practices of kinning the state. Beginning with the study of politics, the first part of this volume looks at how its separation from kinship came to be considered a 'modern' phenomenon, with significant consequences. The second part starts from kinship, showing how it was made into a separate and apolitical field - an idea that would soon travel and be translated globally into policies. The third part turns to reproductions through various transmissions and future making projects. Overall, the volume offers a fundamental critique of the epistemological separation of politics and kinship, and its shortcomings for teaching and research. Featuring contributions from a broad range of regional, temporal and theoretical backgrounds, it allows for critical engagement with knowledge production about the entanglement of politics and kinship. The different traditions and contemporary approaches represented make this book an essential resource for researchers, instructors and students of anthropology"--
