Family Beyond Family

The Varieties of Kinship Experience

James P. Ito-Adler, Parker Shipton (Herausgeber)

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302 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-798-4 (ISBN)

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Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range from the purely abstract to the bricks and mortar of college fraternities and sororities. Family Beyond Family observes and examines the principles and purposes of such fabricated connections.

James P. Ito-Adler has served as a member of the faculty at Florida International University and Harvard University. He is Co-Founder and President of the Cambridge Institute for Brazilian Studies, an independent nonprofit educational organization. He is a member of the Board and serves as the Executive Officer of the Association for Central Civilizations and Silk Road Studies (ACANSRS), and as General Editor of the Cambridge Institutes Press. He is the author of The Portuguese of Cambridge and Somerville (Cambridge Dept. of Community Development, 1980).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Parker Shipton

Part I: Perceiving, Projecting, and Re-imagining Kinship

Chapter 1. Kinship in Shifting Perspectives (or: Brother, Can You Paradigm?)

Parker Shipton

Chapter 2. Genealogy and other Essential Fictions: The Family in Essence and Consensus

James W. Fernandez

Chapter 3. Only Connect: The Challenge of Being Born Human

John Edward Terrell

Part II: Close Family and Roles Delegated Inside and Out

Chapter 4. Fictive Fatherhood

Nicholas Townsend

Chapter 5. Sponsoring Careers: A Person-Centered View of Fictive Kinship Pragmatics

Robert A. LeVine

Part III: Ritual Kinship and Some of Its Variants

Chapter 6. “Iron Brothers” and “Dear Customers”: Fictive Kinship and Social Change in China

Chun-Yi Sum and Jason Jiansheng Li

Chapter 7. Masquerading Rites of Passage: Fictive Marriage in Iran

Shahla Haeri

Chapter 8. Patrilineality and Its Alternatives in the Islamic Middle East: Milk, Umma, Sect, and Tariqa

Charles Lindholm

Part IV: Further Forms of Familyhood

Chapter 9. Meta-Kinship: Nominal Relatives as Fact, Fiction, and Factual Fiction

Parker Shipton

Chapter 10. Mechanical Automata and Performative Kinship: Repair and Relatedness through “As If” Illusions

Ellen Schattschneider

Chapter 11. Old Worlds from Fragments: Holocaust Family Memory in the Age of Ancestral DNA

Mark Auslander

Conclusion: Coda

James P. Ito-Adler and Parker Shipton

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-798-2 / 1805397982
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-798-4 / 9781805397984
Zustand	Neuware