The Politics of Making Kinship : : Historical and Anthropological Perspectives / / ed. by David Warren Sabean, Erdmute Alber, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Alber, Erdmute,; Arni, Caroline,; Derichs, Claudia,; Heinemann, Julia,; Hohkamp, Michaela,; Kuchenbuch, Ludolf,; Mathieu, Jon,; McKinnon, Susan,; Melhuus, Marit,; Müller-Wille, Staffan,; Sabean, David Warren,; Teuscher, Simon,; Thelen, Tatjana,; Zitelmann, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Alber, Erdmute,; Sabean, David Warren,; Teuscher, Simon,; Thelen, Tatjana,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction Politics of Making Kinship --; Part I. Epistemologies --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Quantifying Generation: Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship Calculation --; Chapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850 --; Chapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the “Genealogical Method” --; Chapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social Anthropology --; Chapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and an Epistemic Void --; Part II. Projects --; Chapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and Parsons --; Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories: Bodin’s and Hotman’s Ideas of Monarchy --; Chapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America --; Chapter 9. Toward a Political Economy of the Maternal Body: Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French Feminism --; Part III Deployments --; Chapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin --; Chapter 11. “As If Begotten and Born of Freeborn Parents”: Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman Occident --; Chapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in Norway --; Chapter 13 Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State Theories --; Chapter 14 Translating the Family --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800737853; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800737853
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by David Warren Sabean, Erdmute Alber, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen.

A long tradition of Western political thought included the concepts of a household, the family, and kinship in models of public order, but during the nineteenth century the newly constructed social sciences developed a conceptualization of “the West and the Rest” and excised family and kinship 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 elsewhere that has been ascribed to it. Exploring the issues that arise once the sharp divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politic 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, from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars expertly place kinship centerstage and reintegrating it with political theory.