Race, Ethnicity, and Nation : : Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics /

Race, Ethnicity, and Nation : : Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics / / ed. by Peter Wade.

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 assist...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
MitwirkendeR:
Campbell, Ben,
Dauksas, Darius,
Gené, Enric Porqueres I,
Howell, Signe,
Marre, Diana,
Melhuus, Marit,
Tyler, Katharine,
Wade, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Wade, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Biosocial Society ; 1
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • 1. Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
  • 2. Race, Genetics and Inheritance: Reflections upon the Birth of ‘Black’ Twins to a ‘White’ IVF Mother
  • 3. Race, Biology and Culture in Contemporary Norway: Identity and Belonging in Adoption, Donor Gametes and Immigration
  • 4. ‘I want her to learn her language and maintain her culture’: Transnational Adoptive Families’ Views of ‘Cultural Origins’
  • 5. Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in Europe
  • 6. Kinship Language and the Dynamics of Race: The Basque Case
  • 7. The Transmission of Ethnicity: Family and State – A Lithuanian Perspective
  • 8. Media Storylines of Culturally Hybrid Persons and Nation
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Glossary
  • Index

Similar Items