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1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:
9780742578890
Series Statement:
Alterations v.1
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Content:
Intro -- 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 -- UNMAKING AFFILIATION -- CASE 1. AFFILIATION THROUGH ADOPTION: DESCENT REVISITED -- CASE 2. AFFILIATION THROUGH MARRIAGE:AFFINITY REVISITED -- AFFILIATION AND DEATH -- MAKING AFFILIATION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 - Rainbow Family, Rainbow Nation: Reflections on Relatives and Relational Dynamics in Trinidad -- CIRCULATING FAMILY STORIES -- THE INTIMATE SPHERE -- CARIBBEAN KINSHIP STUDIES -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- SOCIAL FACTORS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES -- STATUS CONSIDERATIONS AND THE TOTALITY OF MARRIAGE -- COSMOPOLITANISM, CREOLIZATION, AND HYBRIDITY -- FROM FAMILY TO NATION -- MEMORY AND FORGETFULNESS, DISCOURSE AND SILENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 - Personalizing It: Adoption, Bastardy, Kinship, and Family -- THE SETTING -- DEFINING THE IT-RABI -- A VERNACULAR OF MOROCCAN ADOPTIONS -- LEGAL VISIBILITY OR THE MOVE TOWARD ACKNOWLEDGING THE EXISTENCE OF A PROBLEM -- THE DISTANT ROOTS OF A DISTINCTION -- CONTEMPORARY MOROCCAN PERSONAL STATUS LAW (MOUDAWANA) -- REMEMBERING -- STRADDLING GENERATIONS, CHANGING VALUES -- AN ALL-IN-ONE: LOOKING AT THE FAMILY -- NAMES, A RITUAL OF THE MODERN NATION-STATE -- BASTARDY THROUGH CULTURAL LENSES -- FINAL ACT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 - A Kinship of One's Own -- STORIES WE TELL -- STATUS STRATIFICATIONS AMONG BENGALI MUSLIMS -- A FAMILY OF WOMEN AND THE MYSTIQUE OF KINSHIP -- IN SEARCH OF FRIENDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE -- TOWARD VIRTUAL KINSHIP -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5 - Kousi Oda Ponnu (Kousi's Daughter) -- ONE -- TWO -- THREE -- FOUR -- FIVE -- SIX -- SEVEN -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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Additional Edition:
9780742509559
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780742509559
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1331681
