The Politics of Making Kinship: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Contents\nIllustrations\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction Politics of Making Kinship\nPart I. Epistemologies\nIntroduction\nChapter 1. Quantifying Generation: Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship Calculation\nChapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850\nChapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the “Genealogical Method”\nChapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social Anthropology\nChapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and an Epistemic Void\nPart II. Projects\nIntroduction\nChapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and Parsons\nChapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories: Bodin’s and Hotman’s Ideas of Monarchy\nChapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America\nChapter 9. Toward a Political Economy of the Maternal Body: Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French Feminism\nPart III Deployments\nIntroduction\nChapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin\nChapter 11. “As If Begotten and Born of Freeborn Parents”: Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman Occident\nChapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in Norway\nChapter 13 Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State Theories\nChapter 14 Translating the Family\nIndex