Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Conceiving Kinship in the Twenty-First Century
- Part I Opening Frameworks
- Part II The (Non)Biological Basis of Relatedness
- Part III Reproducing Society: Gender, Birth, and Power
- Part IV Transnational Connections
- 16 Maids, Mistresses, and Wives: Rethinking Kinship and the Domestic Sphere in Twenty-First Century Global Hong Kong
- 17 Transnational Adoption
- 18 Kinship in Transnational Encounters: Filipino Migrants As “Ideal Brides” in Rural Japan
- 19 Un/making Family: Relatedness, Migration, and Displacement in a Global Age
- 20 My Folder Is Not a Person: Kinship Knowledge, Biopolitics, and the Adoption File
- Part V Technological Conceptions
- Part VI Kinship and the Nation-State
- Index
- References
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Conceiving Kinship in the Twenty-First Century
- Part I Opening Frameworks
- Part II The (Non)Biological Basis of Relatedness
- Part III Reproducing Society: Gender, Birth, and Power
- Part IV Transnational Connections
- 16 Maids, Mistresses, and Wives: Rethinking Kinship and the Domestic Sphere in Twenty-First Century Global Hong Kong
- 17 Transnational Adoption
- 18 Kinship in Transnational Encounters: Filipino Migrants As “Ideal Brides” in Rural Japan
- 19 Un/making Family: Relatedness, Migration, and Displacement in a Global Age
- 20 My Folder Is Not a Person: Kinship Knowledge, Biopolitics, and the Adoption File
- Part V Technological Conceptions
- Part VI Kinship and the Nation-State
- Index
- References
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