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Introduction: Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies / Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon
Part I. Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext
1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten
2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver / Gillian Feeley-Harnik
3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology / Mary Bouquet
4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life / Stefan Helmreich
Part II. Kinship Negotiations: What's Biology Not/Got to Do with It
5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/Class Politics of Blood Transfusion / Kath Weston
6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic / Charis Thompson
7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption / Signe Howell
8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China / Yunxiang Yan
9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting / Martine Segalen
Part III. Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship
10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory / Susan McKinnon
11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies / Sarah Franklin
Part IV. 'R' Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies
12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper
13. "We're Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are": Science and Relatedness / Jonathan Marks
14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Heredity Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue Taussig
Part V. Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship
15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz
16. Cutting the Ties that Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship / Carol Delaney
17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner Strong
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