Overview

Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.

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Author:   Peter Wade
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   v. 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781845456818

ISBN 10:   1845456815
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics Peter Wade Chapter 2. Race, Genetics and Inheritance: Reflections upon the Birth of 'Black' Twins to a 'White' IVF Mother Katharine Tyler Chapter 3. Race, Biology and Culture in Contemporary Norway: Identity and Belonging in Adoption, Donor Gametes and Immigration Signe Howell and Marit Melhuus Chapter 4. 'I want her to learn her language and maintain her culture.' Transnational Adoptive Families' Views of 'Cultural Origins' Diana Marre Chapter 5. Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in Europe Ben Campbell Chapter 6. Kinship, Language and the Dynamics of Race: The Basque Case Enric Porqueres i Gene Chapter 7. The Transmission of Ethnicity: Family and State - A Lithuanian Perspective Darius Dauksas Chapter 8. Media Storylines of Culturally Hybrid Persons and Nation Ben Campbell Glossary Index

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This collection fulfils its aim of broadening the terms and contexts of current debate - It is - recommended to scholars interested in human relatedness in its different forms and particularly those working at the intersections between relatedness and development in bioscience.A * Journal of Biosocial Science Rich with examples, taken together this volume extends in important ways our understanding of race, ethnicity, and nation through the perspective of kinship, conceived as entailing, as Wade puts it, 'a constant traffic between natural and cultural idioms'.A * JRAI

Author Information

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His publications include Blackness and Race Mixture (1993), Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (1997), Music, Race and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia (2000), Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (2002). His current research focuses on issues of racial identity, embodiment and new genetic and information technologies.

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