ISBN:
9780231144520
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (245 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Kissing Cousins : A New Kinship Bestiary
DDC:
306.83
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Since DNA has replaced blood as the medium through which we establish kinship, how do we determine with whom we are kin? Who counts among those we care for? The distinction between these categories is constantly in flux. How do we come to decide those we may kiss and those we may kill?Focusing on narratives of kinship as they are defined in contemporary film, literature, and news media, Frances Bartkowski discusses the impact of "stories of origin" on our regard for nonhuman species. She locates the role of "totems and taboos" in forming and re-forming kinship categories-groupings that enable
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; Prologue: Remember the 2,000-Year-Old Man?; PART I; 1. Kissing Cousins; 2. Forget the Alamo …; 3. The Newly Born Century; 4. Sisters of the Bone; PART II; 5. Apes 'r Us; 6. When Apes Rule; 7. Again, a Declaration of Rights; 8. From Cage to Caves; 9. Trees of Origin; 10. Bonobos in Our Midst; PART III; 11. Kintimacy: Blood Brothers; 12. Of Pigs and Men; 13. Mendel's Nephew; 14. Of Love and Law; Epilogue: Here Come the Cavemen; Works Cited; Works Consulted; Index;
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