European Kinship In The Age Of Biotechnology
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European Kinship In The Age Of Biotechnology
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Author : Jeanette Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009
European Kinship In The Age Of Biotechnology written by Jeanette Edwards and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Medical categories.
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 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? Why is genetically modified food an issue? Are 'genes' and 'blood' interchangeable? It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a 'geneticization' of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of 'nature' and of what is 'natural'. But, they also illustrate the complexity of contemporary kinship thinking in Europe and the continued interconnectedness of biological and sociological understandings of relatedness and the relationship between nature and nurture.
The Politics Of Making Kinship
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Author : Erdmute Alber
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-12-09
The Politics Of Making Kinship written by Erdmute Alber and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-09 with Political Science categories.
The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.
Relations
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Author : Marilyn Strathern
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Relations written by Marilyn Strathern and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Social Science categories.
The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries, Strathern shows how the historical idiosyncrasy of using an epistemological term for kinspersons (“relatives”) was bound up with evolving ideas about knowledge-making and kin-making. She draws on philosophical debates about relation—such as Leibniz's reaction to Locke—and what became its definitive place in anthropological exposition, elucidating the underlying assumptions and conventions of its use. She also calls for scholars in anthropology and beyond to take up the limitations of Western relational thinking, especially against the background of present ecological crises and interest in multispecies relations. In weaving together analyses of kin-making and knowledge-making, Strathern opens up new ways of thinking about the contours of epistemic and relational possibilities while questioning the limits and potential of ethnographic methods.
Relatedness In Assisted Reproduction
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Author : Tabitha Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Relatedness In Assisted Reproduction written by Tabitha Freeman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Medical categories.
This multidisciplinary book addresses the nature and meaning of relationships and identity in assisted conception families.
Social And Cultural Perspectives On Health Technology And Medicine
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Author : Ciara Kierans
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-22
Social And Cultural Perspectives On Health Technology And Medicine written by Ciara Kierans and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-22 with Social Science categories.
Developments in health, science and technology have long provided fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines. This book focuses on the critical and enduring importance of core concepts in anthropology and sociology for interrogating and keeping pace with developments in the life sciences. The authors consider how transformations in medical and scientific knowledge serve to reanimate older controversies, giving new life to debates about relations between society, culture, knowledge and individuals. They reflect on the particular legacies and ongoing relevance of concepts such as ‘culture’, ‘society’, ‘magic’, ‘production’, ‘kinship’, ‘exchange’ and ‘the body’. The chapters draw on the work of key historical and contemporary figures across the social sciences and include a range of illustrative case studies to explore topics such as transplant medicine, genetic counselling, cancer therapy, reproductive health and addiction. Of particular interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies, this volume will also be a valuable resource for those working in the fields of health and medicine.
Religion And Science As Forms Of Life
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Author : Carles Salazar
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Religion And Science As Forms Of Life written by Carles Salazar and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Religion categories.
The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions use this theoretical and ethnographic research to explore different scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world.
Invisible Labours
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Author : Aimee Louise Middlemiss
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2024-02-02
Invisible Labours written by Aimee Louise Middlemiss and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-02 with Social Science categories.
Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labours describes the reproductive politics of this category of pregnancy loss in England. It shows how second trimester pregnancy loss produces specific medical and social experiences, revealing an underlying teleological ontology of pregnancy. Some women then use an alternative understanding of pregnancy based on kinship with the second trimester foetal being or baby to resist the erasure of their experience.
Reconnecting State And Kinship
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Author : Tatjana Thelen
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018
Reconnecting State And Kinship written by Tatjana Thelen and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Social Science categories.
Reconnecting State and Kinship seeks to overcome the traditional dichotomy between state and kinship, asking whether concepts associated with one sphere surface in the other, tracking the evolution of these concepts through time and space, and exploring how this binary is reinforced within the social sciences.
Anthropos And The Material
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Author : Penny Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-09
Anthropos And The Material written by Penny Harvey and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-09 with Social Science categories.
The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relations between the human, the material, and the political affect contemporary social worlds. The contributors to Anthropos and the Material examine these challenges by questioning and complicating long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things. They present ethnographic case studies from across the globe, addressing myriad topics that range from labor, economics, and colonialism to technology, culture, the environment, agency, and diversity. In foregrounding the importance of connecting natural and social histories, the instability and intangibility of the material, and the ways in which the lively encounters between the human and the nonhuman challenge conceptions of liberal humanism, the contributors point to new understandings of the capacities of people and things to act, transform, and adapt to a changing world.
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy And The Un Making Of Kin In India
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Author : Anindita Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy And The Un Making Of Kin In India written by Anindita Majumdar and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with Social Science categories.
As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, its lived realities become an important aspect of emerging research. This book maps the way in which in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialists, surrogacy agents, commissioning couples, surrogate mothers, and egg donors contribute to the understanding of interpersonal relations in the process of commercial surrogacy. In this book, Majumdar draws from a context that is enmeshed in the local–global politics of reproduction, including the ways in which the transnational commercial surrogacy arrangement has led to an ongoing debate regarding ethics and morality in the sphere of reproductive rights. In weaving together the diverse, often conflicting experiences of individuals and families, the transnational commercial surrogacy arrangement comes alive as a process mirroring larger societal anxieties with reference to technological interventions in intimate relationships. It is these anxieties, dilemmas, and their negotiations to which the book is addressed.