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Dear All,
The paper proposal deadline for our IUAES 2013 panel 'Inheritance as a
contemporary anthropological issue' has been extended to 3rd August
2012. We warmly invite anyone interested in contributing a 15-minute
presentation to the panel to submit a proposal via the IUAES website.
http://www.iuaes2013.org/
Many thanks- and apologies for cross-posting,
Jennifer Speirs (University of Edinburgh)
Siobhan Magee (University of Edinburgh)
> LONG ABSTRACT
> 'Inheritance' is usually taken to mean the transferral of rights,
> property, objects or other materials to one or more 'heirs' on the
> occasion of someone's death. It may also refer to the intangible:
> physical characteristics, dispositions, status and obligations. In
> genetics and biology, inheritance refers to how traits are passed on
> through Mendelian conditions. Inheritance emerges in discussions about
> families and about who is related to whom and how. DNA testing,
> pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, organ donation, and the donation
> and cryopreservation of gametes have destabilised assumptions about
> familial
> relationships although the sharing of biogenetic substance is not the
> only way in which people think about kinship (Edwards 2009). Fostering,
> step-parenting, adoption and friendship each generate relationships in
> which inheritance may feature.
> We are interested in exploring whether, and if so how, the varying
> ethnographic contexts in which 'inheritance' is used influence the
> meanings attributed to it. A variety of papers is encouraged,
> potentially discussing the following topics: How might inheritance
> reveal moral concerns about relatedness between people, generations,
> and material objects?
What are the strategic uses to which 'inheritance talk' is
> put? We anticipate exploration of these questions in the context of
> debates about the rights to obtain and to refuse genetic information
> (Strathern 1999), of ethnographic findings on inherited resemblance of
> looks and dispositions (Demian 2000), of identity politics, property
> (Hann 2008), and socio-legal arguments about creating and maintaining
> relationships, as well as in relation to continuing questions about how
> societies are or are not 'reproduced'(Goody 1976).
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