The Politics of Making Kinship

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-800-3 (ISBN)

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The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.

Erdmute Alber is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She co-led the research group on Kinship and Politics at ZIF in Bielefeld. Her books include Transfers of Belonging (Brill 2018) and (with Tatjana Thelen) Re-connecting State and Kinship (2017).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Politics of Making Kinship

Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen

Part I: Epistemologies

Chapter 1 . Quantifying Generations. Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship Calculation

Simon Teuscher

Chapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850

Michaela Hohkamp

Chapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the “Genealogical Method”

Staffan Müller-Wille

Chapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social Anthropology

Thomas Zitelmann

Chapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and Epistemic Void

Tatjana Thelen

Part II: Projects

Chapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and Parsons

David Warren Sabean

Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories. Bodin’s and Hotman’s Ideas of Monarchy

Julia Heinemann

Chapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America

Susan McKinnon

Chapter 9. Towards a Political Economy of the Maternal Body. Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French Feminism

Caroline Arni

Part III: Deployments

Outline and summaries

Chapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin

Erdmute Alber

Chapter 11. “As If Begotten and Born of Feeborn Parents” – Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman Occident

Ludolf Kuchenbuch

Chapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in Norway

Merit Melhuus

Chapter 13. Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State Theories

Jon Mathieu

Chapter 14. Translating the Family

Claudia Derichs

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-800-5 / 1800738005
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-800-3 / 9781800738003
Zustand	Neuware