TY - BOOK ID - 18717563 TI - European kinship in the age of biotechnology. AU - Edwards, Jeanette AU - Salazar, Carles PY - 2012 SN - 9781845455736 1845455738 9780857453655 0857453653 PB - New York Berghahn DB - UniCat KW - Artificial insemination, Human KW - Human reproduction KW - Kinship KW - Social aspects KW - Insémination artificielle humaine KW - #SBIB:316.356.2H3621 KW - Gezinssociologie: vruchtbaarheid: Westers maatschappijen KW - Insémination artificielle humaine KW - Parenté KW - Reproduction humaine KW - Aspect social KW - #SBIB:314H230 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - Donor insemination, Human KW - Human artificial insemination KW - Human donor insemination KW - Fertiliteit: algemeen KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Ethnology KW - Clans KW - Consanguinity KW - Families KW - Kin recognition KW - Human physiology KW - Reproduction KW - Reproductive health KW - Reproductive rights KW - Human reproductive technology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18717563 AB - Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ‘the new kinship’, this interest was stimulated by the ‘new genetics’ and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and ‘belonging’ in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modified food an issue? Are ‘genes’ and ‘blood’ interchangeable? It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a ‘geneticization’ of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of ‘nature’ and of what is ‘natural’. But, they also illustrate the complexity of contemporary kinship thinking in Europe and the continued interconnectedness of biological and sociological understandings of relatedness and the relationship between nature and nurture. ER -