Born and Bred
Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England
Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 March 2000
- ISBN 9780198233947
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 243x162x24 mm
- Weight 549 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 halftones, 6 figures, 2 maps 0
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Short description:
The study of kinship is undergoing a renaissance in social anthropology. A reflexive scrutiny of the enterprise of anthropology itself has led to questions about the cultural premisses that social anthropologists bring to the study of kinship in societies other than their own. This study offers an ethnographic example from late twentieth-century England of what constitutes, and is constitutive of, kinship. It also adds significantly to the growing ethnography of contemporary Western society, and provides an insight into attitudes towards NRTs (new reproductive technologies).
MoreLong description:
Born and Bred is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of England. At the heart of the cotton industry in the nineteenth century, this Lancashire town has undergone deep social and economic change during the twentieth, yet it remains a hive of social activity. The book dwells on the way in which the past features large in people's talk about the place and about each other, but it questions the claim that such a preoccupation is simply due to nostalgia for better times. Narratives about the past, like narratives about the kind of place Bacup is, mobilize cultural understandings of kinship, which are also deployed when people talk about the implications of new reproductive technologies. Jeanette Edwards argues that kinship is resonant in the way in which residents of the town belong to pasts, places and persons. She challenges the idea that kinship is no longer an organizing principle in post-industrial Western society.
Born and bred is an important contribution to the ethnographic record ... it identifies an under-researched context ... Born and bred constitutes a useful anthropological contribution to the bigger debate
Table of Contents:
Part 1: In Social Anthropology
Familiar Places
Why Kinship?
Part 2: In Bacup
Naming and Placing
In-Migration and Out-Migration
Houses and Homes
The Same and Different
Common Knowledge
Part 3: In Kinship
An Expertise in Kinship
Gametes Need Names
