Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review “This collection of ten essays is the latest major work to call for renewed attention to the topic [of kinship], especially with respect to contemporary questions of how cultures relate to nature…[It] is a welcome addition to the ongoing revival of kinship, and will stimulate further debate among its many participants.” • Ethnobiology Letters
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Pedigrees of Knowledge: Anthropology and the Genealogical Method
Sandra Bamford and James Leach
Chapter 2. Aborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Race Horse Pedigrees
Rebecca Cassidy
Chapter 3. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial Kenya
Teresa Holmes
Chapter 4. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine
Gisli Pálsson
Chapter 5. Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its Applications in Iceland
Hilary Cunningham
Chapter 6. Skipping a Generation and Assisted Kinship
Jeanette Edwards
Chapter 7. ‘Family Trees’ among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness
Sandra Bamford
Chapter 8. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significance of Transmission on the Rai Coast of PNG
James Leach
Chapter 9. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge
Tim Ingold
Chapter 10. Revealing and Obscuring Rivers’s Pedigrees: Biological Inheritance and Kinship in Madagascar
Rita Astuti
Chapter 11. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on Kinship and Magic
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
