10/02/21 Anthropology of Relatedness | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Anthropology of Relatedness View Online (Semester 2) 106 items Week 1: Introduction & Overview (2 items) Forever is a long time: romancing the real in gay kinship ideologies - Kath Weston Chapter | Essential | You can read Kath Weston's chapter online, through Google Books preview. Kinship Chapter | Recommended Week 2: Kinship as Social Structure (2 items) Kinship as descent Chapter | Essential English ancestors: the moral possibilities of popular genealogy - FENELLA CANNELL, Fenella Cannell, 2011-09 Article | Essential Week 2: Further Reading (8 items) If you are interested in exploring this topic for your essay, you may find the following readings interesting. Part IV: Descent & Alliance - Adam Kupar, 2017 Chapter Common Principles of Variant Kinship Structures among the Gola of Western Liberia - Warren L. D'Azevedo, 1962-06 Article Uses of the past in Gola Discourse - Warren L. d'Azevedo, 1962 Article Kindreds, cognatic and unilineal descent groups: new perspectives from Madagascar - Rita Astuti Chapter Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West - Fenella Cannell Chapter Fasu Solidarity: A Case Study of Kin Networks, Land Tenure, and Oil Extraction in Kutubu, 1/10 10/02/21 Anthropology of Relatedness | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Papua New Guinea - EMMA GILBERTHORPE, 2007-03 Article Speech, silence, and slave descent in highland Madagascar - Luke Freeman, 2013 Article Where Do You Belong? Identity, New Guinea Islanders, and the Power of <i>Peles</i> - Kirsten McGavin, 2016 Article Week 3: Marriage and Gender (2 items) Chapter 3 - Henrietta L. Moore Chapter | Essential Anger, Economy, and Female Agency: Problematizing “Prostitution” and “Sex Work” among the Huli of Papua New Guinea - Holly Wardlow, 2004 Article Week 3: Further Reading (18 items) If you choose to write your essay on this topic, you may find some of the following readings useful General texts An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology - Marilyn Strathern, 1987-01 Article Chapter 8: Marriage and Relatedness Chapter Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? - Sherry B. Ortner, 1972-23 Article Ethnographic Examples Spending Power: Love, Money, and the Reconfiguration of Gender Relations in Ado-Odo, Southwestern Nigeria - Andrea Cornwall, 2002-11 Article | Optional Women on the market: Marriage, consumption, and the Internet in urban Cameroon - JENNIFER JOHNSON-HANKS, 2007-11 Article “To put men in a bottle”: Eroticism, kinship, female power, and transactional sex in Maputo, Mozambique - Christian Groes-Green, 2013-02 Article Wedding bell blues: Marriage, missing men, and matrifocal follies - Evelyn Blackwood, 2/10 10/02/21 Anthropology of Relatedness | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists 2005-02 Article Marriage Promotion and Missing Men: African American Women in a Demographic Double Bind - SANDRA D. LANE, ROBERT H. KEEFE, ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN, BROOKE A. LEVANDOWSKI, MICHAEL FREEDMAN, ALAN ROSENTHAL, DONALD A. CIBULA, MARIA CZERWINSKI, 2004-12 Article Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice - Gracia Clark, 1999-12 Article Man enough to let my wife support me: How changing models of career and gender are reshaping the experience of unemployment - CARRIE M. LANE, 2009-11 Article Expectations of Domesticity Chapter Collapsing fish stocks, gendered economies, and anxieties of entrapment in coastal Sierra Leone - Jennifer Diggins, 2019-12 Article DOWRY and BRIDE PRICE THE INDIVIDUAL AND TRANSFORMATION OF BRIDEWEALTH IN RURAL NORTH CHINA - Yunxiang Yan, 2005-12 Article African bridewealth and women's status - JOHN U. OGBU, 1978-05 Article Making Kin from Gold: Dowry, Gender, and Indian Labor Migration to the Gulf - Andrea Wright, 2020-08-03 Article Week 4: From Biology to Relatedness (1 items) Uses and Abuses of Substance - Janet Carsten Chapter | Essential Week 4: Further Reading (11 items) If you choose to write your essay on this topic, you may find the following readings useful. Depending on the approach you take in your essay, might also find some of the ethnographies about IVF relevant. What kinship is (part one) - Marshall Sahlins, 2011-03 Article 3/10 10/02/21 Anthropology of Relatedness | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Choosing kin: Sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community - Mark Nuttall Chapter The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi - Janet Carsten, 1995 Article It’s this, not that - Andrew SHRYOCK, 2013-06 Article | This is an interesting critique of Marshal Sahlins' approach Milk kinship in Islam. Substance, structure, history* - Peter Parkes, 2005-10 Article Holding On: Adoption, Kinship Tensions, and Pregnancy in the Marshall Islands - Elise Berman, 2014-07 Article Raised by Another Mother: Informal Fostering and Kinship Ambiguities in Northwest Ecuador - Emily Walmsley, 2008-04 Article White Parents, Black Care: Entanglements of Race and Kinship in American Transracial Adoption - Kathryn A. Mariner, 2019-12 Article Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship - Corinne P. Hayden, 1995 Article Forever is a long time: romancing the real in gay kinship ideologies - Kath Weston Chapter Embryo adoption: Emergent forms of siblingship among Snowflakes families - CHANTAL COLLARD, SHIREEN KASHMERI, 2011-05 Article Week 5: New Reproductive Technologies (1 items) Assisted Reproduction - Janet Carsten Chapter | Essential Week 5: Further Reading (11 items) If you are interested in exploring this topic for your essay, you may find the following readings interesting. Embryo adoption: Emergent forms of siblingship among Snowflakes families - CHANTAL COLLARD, SHIREEN KASHMERI, 2011-05 Article | Optional 4/10 10/02/21 Anthropology of Relatedness | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Culture Change - Marcia C. Inhorn and Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, 2008 Article | Optional Virgin Births and Sterile Debates: Anthropology and the New Reproductive Technologies - Cris Shore, R. G. Abrahams, Jane F. Collier, Carol Delaney, Robin Fox, Ronald Frankenberg, Helen S. Lambert, Marit Melhuus, David M. Schneider, Verena Stolcke and Sybil Wolfram, 1992 Article | Essential Closeness in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Debating Kinship and Biomedicine in Lebanon and the Middle East - Morgan Clarke, 2007 Article | Essential "He Won't Be My Son" - Marcia C. Inhorn, 2006-03 Article Observing Multiple Mothering: A Case Study of Childrearing in a U.S. Lesbian-Led Family - Suzanne Pelka, 2010-12 Article Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of New Reproductive Technologies: Male Infertility and Stigma in Egypt and Lebanon - MARCIA C. INHORN, 2004-06 Article Kosher medicine and medicalized halacha: An exploration of triadic relations among Israeli rabbis, doctors, and infertility patients - TSIPY IVRY, 2010-11 Article chasing the blood tie: surrogate mothers, adoptive mothers and fathers - HELENA RAGONÉ , 1996-05 Article Donor siblings - Jeanette EDWARDS, 2013-06 Article Wayward Relations: Novel Searches of the Donor-Conceived for Genetic Kinship - Maren Klotz, 2016-01-02 Article Week 6: The 'Darker' Side of Relatedness (1 items) Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking: Maternal Detachment and Infant Survival in a Brazilian Shantytown - Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 1985-12 Article | Essential Week 6: Further Reading (10 items) If you are interested in exploring this topic for your essay, you may find the following readings interesting. 5/10 10/02/21 Anthropology of Relatedness | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s - M Peletz Chapter | Recommended Mothering While Black: Feminist Thought on Maternal Loss, Mourning and Agency in the African Diaspora - Cheryl Rodriguez, 2016-04 Article Facing the Dragon: Black Mothering, Sequelae, and Gendered Necropolitics in the Americas - Christen A. Smith, 2016-04 Article The Family Toxic: triaging obligation in post-welfare Chicago - Catherine Fennell, 2016 Article The Purchase of Intimacy. - 2000 Article 'No Success Without Struggle': Social Mobility and Hardship for Foster Children in Sierra Leone - Caroline Bledsoe, 1990-03 Article Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust: Africa in comparison - Peter Geschiere, 2013 Book Potato rope families: sharing food and precarious kinship in a West African fishing town - Jennifer Diggins, 2017-11 Article “The Inimba It Cuts”: A Reconsideration of Mother Love in the Context of Poverty - Sarah E. Rubin, 2018-09 Article Things that Don’t Come by the Road: Folktales, Fosterage, and Memories of Slavery in the Cameroon Grassfields - Nicolas Argenti, 2010 Article Week 7: Family Planning, Population Control and the Nation State (1 items) This is a journal article so, remember, it is written with other academics in mind (not 1st year students). Do not worry if some of the language goes a little over your head. Just try to read the 'story'. Planned Births, Unplanned Persons: "Population" in the Making of Chinese Modernity - Susan Greenhalgh, 2003 Article | Essential Week 7: Further Reading (13 items) If you are interested in exploring this topic for your essay, you may find the following readings interesting. 6/10 10/02/21 Anthropology of Relatedness | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Biopower - Dianna Taylor Chapter The Politics of Reproduction - Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, 1991 Article Constructing Natural Fertility: The Use of Western Contraceptive Technologies in Rural Gambia - Caroline H. Bledsoe, Allan G. Hill, Umberto D'Alessandro, Patricia