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European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
Engelsk Hardback
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
Engelsk Hardback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9781845455736
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1845455738
Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2009
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
162mm
Højde:
239mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2009
Forfatter(e):
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