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Kinship and Beyond : The Genealogical Model Reconsidered /

The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model-in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission-structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in dom...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Astuti, Rita (Contribuidor), Bamford, Sandra (Contribuidor, Editor ), Cassidy, Rebecca (Contribuidor), Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de (Contribuidor), Cunningham, Hilary (Contribuidor), Edwards, Jeanette (Contribuidor), Holmes, J. Teresa (Contribuidor), Ingold, Tim (Contribuidor), Leach, James (Contribuidor, Editor ), Pálsson, Gísli (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]
Colección:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 15
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • Introduction PEDIGREES OF KNOWLEDGE ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD
  • Chapter 1 ARBORESCENT CULTURE WRITING AND NOT WRITING RACEHORSE PEDIGREES
  • Chapter 2 WHEN BLOOD MATTERS: MAKING KINSHIP IN COLONIAL KENYA
  • Chapter 3 THE WEB OF KIN: AN ONLINE GENEALOGICAL MACHINE
  • Chapter 4 GENES, MOBILITIES AND THE ENCLOSURES OF CAPITAL: CONTESTING ANCESTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN ICELAND
  • Chapter 5 SKIPPING A GENERATION AND ASSISTING CONCEPTION
  • Chapter 6 'FAMILY TREES' AMONG THE KAMEA OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA: A NON-GENEALOGICAL APPROACH TO IMAGINING RELATEDNESS
  • Chapter 7 KNOWLEDGE AS KINSHIP: MUTABLE ESSENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSMISSION ON THE RAI COAST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
  • Chapter 8 STORIES AGAINST CLASSIFICATION: TRANSPORT, WAYFARING AND THE INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
  • Chapter 9 REVEALING AND OBSCURING RIVERS'S PEDIGREES: BIOLOGICAL INHERITANCE AND KINSHIP IN MADAGASCAR
  • Chapter 10 THE GIFT AND THE GIVEN: THREE NANO-ESSAYS ON KINSHIP AND MAGIC
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX