
Born and Bred
Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England
Jeanette Edwards(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 23. March 2000
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-0-19-823394-7 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute * Richly detailed ... [Edwards] carried out the kind of detailed, long-term participant-observation which is becoming all too rare in Western societies * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
18 halftones, 6 figures, 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823394-7 (9780198233947)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Author
Lecturer in Social AnthropologyLecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Content
PART 1: IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PART 2: IN BACUP; PART 3: IN KINSHIP