What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselvesas kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his or her own alterity as the touchstone of the exploration of an ethnographically and historically specific ethics of kinship. Together, the chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of the entanglement of the subject of kinship with the subject of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, desire. The chapters speak eloquently to the sometimes liberating stories that we cannot help but keep telling about our kin and ourselves.
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The much desired reawakening of interest by anthropologists in the topic of kinship, central to the history of their discipline, has depended on making coherent use of the outpouring of rich culture theories of recent years concerning the concept of the self, gender, issues of subjectivity, and finally, ethics. This compelling and highly readable volume of interwoven narratives and analyses not only sets the terms of this renaissance but also the kinds of debates by which it could be sustained. -- George Marcus, author of Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences The resulting collection is very welcome as it not only constitutes an interesting read in its own right but is also a contribution for the present renewal of debates in the anthropology of kinship. -- Joćo de Pina-Cabral, University of Lisbon * Anthropological Quarterly * Only a few collections exist to give readers an overview of this expanding subfield, and of these, none meld theory with autoethnography in the way undertaken by this collection. The Ethics of Kinship will make an original and provocative contribution to the growing literature on the new kinship studies. -- Kath Weston, Harvard University
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of the Ethics of Kinship 1(28) James D. Faubion Caring and Being Cared For: Displacing Marriage, Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality 29(18) John Borneman Rainbow Family, Rainbow Nation: Reflections on Relatives and Relational Dynamics in Trinidad 47(24) Denise Youngblood Personalizing It: Adoption, Bastardy, Kinship, and Family 71(27) Jamila Bargach A Kinship of Ones Own 98(27) Lamia Karim Kousi Oda Ponnu (Kousis Daughter) 125(28) Deepa S. Reddy The Ethics of Affect: The Public of Intimacy in the Bloomsbury Group and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 153(25) Nityanand Deckha This Week the Blue Room: Locating Kinship in a Split-Level House 178(16) Susan Ossman What We Bring to the Table: The Means of Imagination in an African American Family 194(21) Stanford W. Carpenter ``Like Family to Me: Families of Origin, Families of Choice, and Class Mobility 215(19) Laurel George Be/longings 234(16) Kristin Peterson Family I Imagine 250(16) Carolyn Babula Index 266(9) About the Contributors 275
James Faubion is associate professor of anthropology at Rice University.
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