Article ID: CBB425279467

Kinmaking, progeneration, and ethnography (2022)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Adgemis, Philip
Bradley, John K.
Briskorn, Bettina von
Carpenter, Carol
Dove, Michael F.
Edwards, Elizabeth
Journals
Perspectives on Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Biology and Philosophy
Geographia antiqua
Historical Journal
Publishers
MIT Press
Duke University
Blackwell Publishers
Routledge
Übersee-Museum Bremen
University of California Press
Concepts
Cultural anthropology
Ethnography
Reproduction
Philosophy of biology
Social construction; constructivism
Anthropology
People
Aristotle
Hobbes, Thomas
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Jacob, François
Shternberg, Lev
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
Africa
Austro-hungary
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Australia
France
Institutions
Crystal Palace
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