RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATION. Edited by Peter Wade Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His publications include Blackness and Race Mixture (1993), Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (1997), Music, Race and Nation:Música Tropical in Colombia (2000), Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (2002). His current research focuses on issues of racial identity, embodiment and new genetic and information technologies. Summary Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.
“This collection fulfils its aim of broadening the terms and contexts of current debate…It is…recommended to scholars interested in human relatedness in its different forms and particularly those working at the intersections between relatedness and development in bioscience.” · Journal of Biosocial Science “Rich with examples, taken together this volume extends in important ways our understanding of race, ethnicity, and nation through the perspective of kinship, conceived as entailing, as Wade puts it, ‘a constant traffic between natural and cultural idioms’.” · JRAI
Table of Contents RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATION PERSPECTIVES FROM KINSHIP AND GENETICS Peter Wade
RACE, GENETICS AND INHERITANCE REFLECTIONS UPON THE BIRTH OF 'BLACK' TWINS TO A 'WHITE' IVF MOTHER Katharine Tyler
RACE, BIOLOGY AND CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY NORWAY IDENTITY AND BELONGING IN ADOPTION, DONOR GAMETES AND IMMIGRATION Signe Howell and Marit Melhuus
'I WANT HER TO LEARN HER LANGUAGE AND MAINTAIN HER CULTURE' TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTIVE FAMILIES' VIEWS OF 'CULTURAL ORIGINS' Diana Marre
RACIALIZATION, GENES AND THE REINVENTIONS OF NATION IN EUROPE Ben Campbell
KINSHIP LANGUAGE AND THE DYNAMICS OF RACE THE BASQUE CASE Enric Porqueres i Gené
THE TRANSMISSION OF ETHNICITY FAMILY AND STATE — A LITHUANIAN PERSPECTIVE Darius Daukšas
MEDIA STORYLINES OF CULTURALLY HYBRID PERSONS AND NATION Ben Campbell
As you may know, Women Make Movies is a non-profit media arts
organization and the world's leading distributor of independent films
by and about women. I thought members of this list would be interested to know about
educational documentaries from Women Make Movies screening at the
American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Philadelphia,
December 2-6.
***FOUR WIVES-ONE MAN A moving and intimate portrait of a polygamous
family in a rural Iranian village. Filmmaker Nahid Persson, returns to
her homeland to reveal the intricacies of the relationships between
Heda, his four wives, Farang, Goli, Shahpar and Ziba, their numerous
children and their outspoken mother-in-law.
Learn more and view trailer here: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c718.shtml
***CLUB NATIVE Accomplished
Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer follows the stories of four inspiring
Mohawk women who share about the heartbreaking costs of "marrying out"
of the Mohawk Nation and the clash between love and preserving the
fabric of a close-knit community.
Learn more and view a clip here: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c743.shtml
***THE WOMEN'S KINGDOM
Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo
women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of
mainstream Chinese culture - enjoying great freedoms and carrying heavy
responsibilities.
Learn more and view a clip here: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c707.shtml
