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Author:   Erdmute Alber ,  David Warren Sabean ,  Simon Teuscher ,  Tatjana Thelen
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800738003

ISBN 10:   1800738005
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   09 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Politics of Making Kinship Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen Part I: Epistemologies Chapter 1 . Quantifying Generations. Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship Calculation Simon Teuscher Chapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850 Michaela Hohkamp Chapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the Genealogical Method Staffan Muller-Wille Chapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social Anthropology Thomas Zitelmann Chapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and Epistemic Void Tatjana Thelen Part II: Projects Chapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and Parsons David Warren Sabean Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories. Bodin's and Hotman's Ideas of Monarchy Julia Heinemann Chapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America Susan McKinnon Chapter 9. Towards a Political Economy of the Maternal Body. Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French Feminism Caroline Arni Part III: Deployments Outline and summaries Chapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin Erdmute Alber Chapter 11. As If Begotten and Born of Feeborn Parents - Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman Occident Ludolf Kuchenbuch Chapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in Norway Merit Melhuus Chapter 13. Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State Theories Jon Mathieu Chapter 14. Translating the Family Claudia Derichs Index

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This is a powerful volume that argues for kinship and politics to be studied and analyzed in conjunction and not separately, as is still common within the social and political sciences. [...] What makes the volume particularly strong is that it combines discussions of semantic shifts, political contestations, philosophy and theory, of house(hold), kin, and family relations. It shows why the dominant methods of measuring kinship relations that are so highly biased towards European - if not British - terminology eclipse other ways of organizing filiation. * Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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Erdmute Alber is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She co-led the research group on Kinship and Politics at ZIF in Bielefeld. Her books include Transfers of Belonging (Brill 2018) and (with Tatjana Thelen) Re-connecting State and Kinship (2017).

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