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Ethnographic Practice in the Present (2009)

Bastos, Cristiana [Mitwirkender] ; Coleman, Simon [Mitwirkender] ; Elfimov, Alexei [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857455437

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)

Series Statement: EASA Series 11

DDC: 305.8

Abstract: In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential 'costs' of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by current institutional contexts and historical "traditions" across a range of settings. Here ethnography is featured less as a methodological "tool-box" or technique but rather as a subject on which to reflect.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857455437

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455437

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857455437

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European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology (2009)

Bestard, Joan [Mitwirkender] ; Cadoret, Anne [Mitwirkender] ; Campbell, Ben [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781845458928

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)

Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 14

DDC: 306.83094

Abstract: 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.

DOI: 10.1515/9781845458928

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458928

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Race, Ethnicity, and Nation : Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics (2007)

Campbell, Ben [Mitwirkender] ; Dauksas, Darius [Mitwirkender] ; Gené, Enric Porqueres I [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857455604

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 p.)

Series Statement: Studies of the Biosocial Society 1

DDC: 305.8

Abstract: Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857455604

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455604

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857455604

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