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What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his or her own alterity as the touchstone of the exploration of an ethnographically and historically specific ethics of kinship. Together, the chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of the entanglement of the subject of kinship with the subject of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, desire. The chapters speak eloquently to the sometimes liberating stories that we cannot help but keep telling about our kin and ourselves.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Toward an Anthropology of the Ethics of Kinship
- 1 - Caring and Being Cared For: Displacing Marriage, Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality
- 2 - Rainbow Family, Rainbow Nation: Reflections on Relatives and Relational Dynamics in Trinidad
- 3 - Personalizing It: Adoption, Bastardy, Kinship, and Family
- 4 - A Kinship of One’s Own
- 5 - Kousi Oda Ponnu (Kousi’s Daughter)
- 6 - The Ethics of Affect: The Public Politics of Intimacy in the Bloomsbury Group and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
- 7 - This Week the Blue Room: Locating Kinship in a Split-Level House
- 8 - What We Bring to the Table: The Means of Imagination in an African American Family
- 9 - “Like Family to Me”: Families of Origin, Families of Choice, and Class Mobility
- 10 - Be/longings
- 11 - Family I Imagine
- Index
- About the Contributors