Born and Bred - Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England

Zusatztext Richly detailed ... [Edwards] carried out the kind of detailed, long-term participant-observation which is becoming all too rare in Western societies Klappentext 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 ofcontemporary Western society, and provides an insight into attitudes towards NRTs (new reproductive technologies). Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeanette Edwards, Jeanette (Lecturer in Social Anthropology Edwards, Edwards Jeanette
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9780198233947
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823394-7
• Pagine: 278
• Serie: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, North West England