Reconnecting State and Kinship / / ed. by Tatjana Thelen, Erdmute Alber.

Within the social sciences, kinship and statehood are often seen as two distinct modes of social organization, sometimes conceived of as following each other in a temporal line and sometimes as operating on different scales. Kinship is traditionally associated with small-scale communities in statele...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Reconnecting State and Kinship: Temporalities, Scales, Classifications
  • Part I. Traveling Concepts Temporalities, Scales, and the Making of Political Order
  • Chapter 1. Corruption as Political Incest
  • Chapter 2. Kinship Weaponized
  • Chapter 3. Inside and Outside the Language of Kinship
  • Chapter 4. Appropriate Kinship, Legitimate Nationhood
  • Chapter 5. From Familial to Familiar
  • Part II. Classifying Kinship and the Making of Citizens
  • Chapter 6. The Politics of “See-Through” Kinship
  • Chapter 7. Undoing Kinship
  • Chapter 8. Producing “Good” Families and Citizens in Danish Child Care Institutions
  • Chapter 9. After Citizenship
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments