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Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Pedigrees of Knowledge: Anthropology and the Genealogical Method
Sandra Bamford and James Leach

Chapter 2. Aborescent Culture: Writing and Not Writing Race Horse Pedigrees
Rebecca Cassidy

Chapter 3. When Blood Matters: Making Kinship in Colonial Kenya
Teresa Holmes

Chapter 4. The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine
Gisli Pálsson

Chapter 5. Genes, Mobilities and the Enclosures of Capital: Contesting Ancestry and its Applications in Iceland
Hilary Cunningham

Chapter 6. Skipping a Generation and Assisted Kinship
Jeanette Edwards

Chapter 7. ‘Family Trees’ among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness
Sandra Bamford

Chapter 8. Knowledge as Kinship: Mutable Essence and the Significance of Transmission on the Rai Coast of PNG
James Leach

Chapter 9. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge
Tim Ingold

Chapter 10. Revealing and Obscuring Rivers’s Pedigrees: Biological Inheritance and Kinship in Madagascar
Rita Astuti

Chapter 11. The Gift and the Given: Three Nano-Essays on Kinship and Magic
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index

Kinship and Beyond

The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach

300 pages, 21 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-422-7 Hb Published (March 2009)

eISBN 978-1-84545-896-6
web ISBN 978-1-84545-896-6