Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Pedigrees of Knowledge: Anthropology and the
Genealogical Method
Sandra Bamford and James Leach
Chapter 2. Aborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing
Race Horse Pedigrees
Rebecca Cassidy
Chapter 3. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial
Kenya
Teresa Holmes
Chapter 4. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical
Machine
Gisli Pálsson
Chapter 5. Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of
Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its Applications in Iceland
Hilary Cunningham
Chapter 6. Skipping a Generation and Assisted Kinship
Jeanette Edwards
Chapter 7. ‘Family Trees’ among the Kamea of Papua New
Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness
Sandra Bamford
Chapter 8. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the
Significance of Transmission on the Rai Coast of PNG
James Leach
Chapter 9. Stories Against Classification: Transport,
Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge
Tim Ingold
Chapter 10. Revealing and Obscuring Rivers’s Pedigrees:
Biological Inheritance and Kinship in Madagascar
Rita Astuti
Chapter 11. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on
Kinship and Magic
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
Sandra Bamford is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Papua New Guinea and the West, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, landscape, environmentalism, globalization, and biotechnology. In addition to having authored several journal articles and book chapters, her most recent publications include: Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology (University of California Press, 2006) and Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).
“This collection of ten essays is the latest major work to call for renewed attention to the topic [of kinship], especially with respect to contemporary questions of how cultures relate to nature…[It] is a welcome addition to the ongoing revival of kinship, and will stimulate further debate among its many participants.” • Ethnobiology Letters
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