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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Politics of Making Kinship
Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen
Part I: Epistemologies
Chapter 1
. Quantifying Generations. Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship Calculation
Simon Teuscher
Chapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850
Michaela Hohkamp
Chapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the “Genealogical Method”
Staffan Müller-Wille
Chapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social Anthropology
Thomas Zitelmann
Chapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and Epistemic Void
Tatjana Thelen
Part II: Projects
Chapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and Parsons
David Warren Sabean
Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories. Bodin’s and Hotman’s Ideas of Monarchy
Julia Heinemann
Chapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America
Susan McKinnon
Chapter 9. Towards a Political Economy of the Maternal Body. Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French Feminism
Caroline Arni
Part III: Deployments
Outline and summaries
Chapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin
Erdmute Alber
Chapter 11. “As If Begotten and Born of Feeborn Parents” – Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman Occident
Ludolf Kuchenbuch
Chapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in Norway
Merit Melhuus
Chapter 13. Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State Theories
Jon Mathieu
Chapter 14. Translating the Family
Claudia Derichs
Index
The Politics of Making Kinship
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, and Tatjana Thelen
448 pages, 6 figures, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-800-3 Hb Published (December 2022)
eISBN 978-1-80073-785-3 eBook