Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-326) and index.
Contents:
The difference kinship makes / Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell -- Kinship within and beyond the "movement of progressive societies" / Susan McKinnon -- Transnational family capitalism : producing "made in Italy" in China / Sylvia J. Yanagisako -- "I am a petroleum product" : making kinship work on the Patagonian frontier / Elana Shever -- Ghosts, commensality, and scuba diving : tracing kinship and sociality in clinical pathology labs and blood banks in Penang / Janet Carsten -- On the road again : movement, marriage, mestizaje, and the race of kinship / Barbara Bodenhorn -- "This body is our body" : Vishwakarma Puja, the social debts of kinship, and theories of materiality in a neoliberal shipyard / Laura Bear -- Placing the dead : kinship, slavery, and free labor in pre- and post-Civil War America / Gillian Feeley-Harnik -- The re-enchantment of kinship / Fenella Cannell -- Kinship, modernity, and the immodern / Michael Lambek -- Kinship and catastrophe : global warming and the rhetoric of descent / Danilyn Rutherford.
Series:
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
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