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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the volume, "Chinese kinship.
Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives", published by Routledge in September
2008.
Could you please pass on the info below to all BACS members?
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Gonçalo D. santos
Dr Gonçalo D. Santos
London School of Economics
Department of Anthropology
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel.: +44 (0)207 955 6241
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7603
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Abstract:
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on
Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The
collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger
socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality,
intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender
relations - and vice versa. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material from
the late imperial period and from contemporary Taiwan and the People's Republic
of China, from northern and southern regions as well as from rural and urban
settings, the volume provides unique insights into the historical and spatial
diversities of the Chinese kinship experience. This emphasis on diversity
challenges the classic 'lineage paradigm' of Chinese kinship and establishes a
dialogue with contemporary anthropological debates about human kinship
reflecting on the emergence of radically new family formations in the
Euro-American context.
Chinese Kinship will be of interest to anthropologists and sinologists, as to
historians and social scientists in general.
Edited by:
Susanne Brandtstädter, University of Oslo
Gonçalo D. Santos, London School of Economics
Contents:
INTRODUCTION: Chinese kinship metamorphoses
Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Oslo)
Gonçalo D. Santos (London School of Economics)
PART 1: MOTION, MIGRATION AND URBANITY
1. 'Families we create': Women's kinship in rural China as spatialized practice
Ellen Judd (University of Manitoba)
2. Living a single life. The plight and adaptations of the bachelors in Yishala
Hua Han (University of Washington)
3. Practicing connectiveness as kinship in Urban China
William Jankowiak (University of Nevada)
PART 2: INTIMACY, GENDER AND POWER
4. The ties that bind: Female homosociality and the production of intimacy in
rural China
Sara Friedman (Indiana University)
5. The 'stove-family' and the process of kinship in rural South China
Gonçalo D. Santos (London School of Economics)
6. Actually existing Chinese matriarchy
Charles Stafford (London School of Economics)
7. The gender of work and the production of kinship value in Taiwan and China
Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Oslo)
PART 3: STATE, BODY AND CIVILIZATION
8. Becoming a mother in Late Imperial China: maternal doubles and the
ambiguities of fertility
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
9. Education and the governing of child-centred relatedness
Andrew Kipnis (Australian National University)
10. Disruption, commemoration and family repair
Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics)
AFTERWORD
Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh)
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School of East Asian Studies and White Rose East Asia Centre
Sheffield University
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK
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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the volume, "Chinese kinship. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives", published by Routledge in September 2008.
Could you please pass on the info below to all BACS members?
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Gonçalo D. santos
Dr Gonçalo D. Santos
London School of Economics
Department of Anthropology
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel.: +44 (0)207 955 6241
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7603
Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
*******************************************************
Abstract:
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The
collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations - and vice versa. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material from the late imperial period and from contemporary Taiwan and the People's Republic of China, from northern and southern regions as well as from rural and urban settings, the volume provides unique insights into the historical and spatial diversities of the Chinese kinship experience. This emphasis on diversity challenges the classic 'lineage paradigm' of Chinese kinship and establishes a dialogue with contemporary anthropological debates about human kinship reflecting on the emergence of radically new family formations in the Euro-American context.
Chinese Kinship will be of interest to anthropologists and sinologists, as to historians and social scientists in general.
Edited by:
Susanne Brandtstädter, University of Oslo
Gonçalo D. Santos, London School of Economics
Contents:
INTRODUCTION: Chinese kinship metamorphoses
Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Oslo)
Gonçalo D. Santos (London School of Economics)
PART 1: MOTION, MIGRATION AND URBANITY
1. 'Families we create': Women's kinship in rural China as spatialized practice
Ellen Judd (University of Manitoba)
2. Living a single life. The plight and adaptations of the bachelors in Yishala
Hua Han (University of Washington)
3. Practicing connectiveness as kinship in Urban China
William Jankowiak (University of Nevada)
PART 2: INTIMACY, GENDER AND POWER
4. The ties that bind: Female homosociality and the production of intimacy in rural China
Sara Friedman (Indiana University)
5. The 'stove-family' and the process of kinship in rural South China
Gonçalo D. Santos (London School of Economics)
6. Actually existing Chinese matriarchy
Charles Stafford (London School of Economics)
7. The gender of work and the production of kinship value in Taiwan and China
Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Oslo)
PART 3: STATE, BODY AND CIVILIZATION
8. Becoming a mother in Late Imperial China: maternal doubles and the ambiguities of fertility
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
9. Education and the governing of child-centred relatedness
Andrew Kipnis (Australian National University)
10. Disruption, commemoration and family repair
Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics)
AFTERWORD
Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh)
Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm
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