Philosophers of biology and biologists themselves for the most part assume that the concept of kin is progenerative: what makes two individuals kin is a direct or indirect function of reproduction. Derivatively, kinship might likewise be presumed to be progenerative in nature. Yet a prominent view of kinship in contemporary cultural anthropology is a kind of constructivism or performativism that rejects such progenerativist views. This paper critically examines an influential line of thinking used to critique progenerativism and support performativism that cites cross-cultural diversity in what I will call kinmaking. I challenge several key assumptions made in moving from this appeal to ethnography to conclusions about kinship and progeneration, arguing that closer scrutiny of both the ethnographic record and inferences that draw on it in fact support progenerative views of kinmaking.
...More
Article
Bradley, John;
Adgemis, Philip;
Haralampou, Luka;
(2014)
“Why Can't They Put Their Names?”: Colonial Photography, Repatriation and Social Memory
(/isis/citation/CBB001201577/)
Article
Miguel García-Valdecasas;
Terrence W. Deacon;
(2024)
Biological functions are causes, not effects: A critique of selected effects theories
(/isis/citation/CBB854874311/)
Article
Jaya Keaney;
(2022)
The Racializing Womb: Surrogacy and Epigenetic Kinship
(/isis/citation/CBB389875479/)
Article
William T. Lynch;
(2019)
Between Kin Selection and Cultural Relativism: Cultural Evolution and the Origin of Inequality
(/isis/citation/CBB211246459/)
Thesis
Suzanne Amelia Onorato;
(1990)
Organizational legitimacy and the social construction of contraceptives: The politics of technological choice
(/isis/citation/CBB761252114/)
Book
Rottenburg, Richard;
(2009)
Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid
(/isis/citation/CBB001021297/)
Article
Adam Hochman;
(2022)
Has social constructionism about race outlived its usefulness? Perspectives from a race skeptic
(/isis/citation/CBB464136555/)
Article
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger;
(2023)
Remarks on François Jacob’s Concept of Integron
(/isis/citation/CBB370506810/)
Article
Gunnar Babcock;
(2020)
Asexual organisms, identity and vertical gene transfer
(/isis/citation/CBB936643771/)
Chapter
Makus, Ingrid;
(2009)
Hobbes and Aristotle on Biology, Reason and Reproduction
(/isis/citation/CBB001201161/)
Book
Diane E. Bailey;
Paul M. Leonardi;
(2015)
Technology choices: Why occupations differ in their embrace of new technology
(/isis/citation/CBB321994922/)
Book
Roberts, Elizabeth F. S.;
(2012)
God's Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes
(/isis/citation/CBB001213115/)
Article
Pierre Schneider;
(2013)
«Restez barbares et ichtyophages; vous en vivrez plus tranquilles, meilleurs peut-être et sûrement plus heureux», ou l’illustre destinée des misérables Ichtyophages (5e s. av. J.C. - 5e s. ap. J.C.)
(/isis/citation/CBB025465186/)
Book
Briskorn, Bettina von;
(2000)
Zur Sammlungsgeschichte afrikanischer Ethnographica im Übersee-Museum Bremen 1841-1945
(/isis/citation/CBB000111118/)
Article
Risjord, Mark;
(2000)
Thc Politics of Explanation and the Origins of Ethnography
(/isis/citation/CBB000111123/)
Book
Edwards, Elizabeth;
Hart, Janice;
(2004)
Photographs, Objects, Histories: On the Materiality of Images
(/isis/citation/CBB000470068/)
Book
Dove, Michael;
Carpenter, Carol;
(2008)
Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader
(/isis/citation/CBB001035147/)
Article
Qureshi, Sadiah;
(2011)
Robert Gordon Latham, Displayed Peoples, and the Natural History of Race, 1854--1866
(/isis/citation/CBB001023390/)
Article
Lafferton, Emese;
(2007)
The Magyar Moustache: The Faces of Hungarian State Formation, 1867--1918
(/isis/citation/CBB000831415/)
Article
Bruce Grant;
(2020)
Missing Links. Indigenous Life and Evolutionary Thought in the History of Russian Ethnography
(/isis/citation/CBB724939608/)
Be the first to comment!