{"product_id":"relative-values-reconfiguring-kinship-studies-paperback","title":"Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Franklin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSusan McKinnon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eRelative Values\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\tIdeas 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, \u003ci\u003eRelative Values\u003c\/i\u003e injects new life into one of anthropology's most important disciplinary traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\tPosing these and other timely questions, \u003ci\u003eRelative Values\u003c\/i\u003e injects an important interdisciplinary curiosity into one of anthropology's most important disciplinary traditions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important collection of inter-disciplinary essays on the new kinship shows diverse ways that relative values, shifting solidarities, and partial connections of truth and affect today create the ties that bind.--Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Franklin is Reader in Cultural Anthropology for the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan McKinnon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 536\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.24 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722413576255,"sku":"9780822327967","price":77.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/144e481ecf6d68d44d673d395840f65d.webp?v=1765095674","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/relative-values-reconfiguring-kinship-studies-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}