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The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled “kinship.” The detailed ethnographic work and analysis included in this text explores how these assumptions have been built into our understandings of race, personhood, ethnicity, property relations, and the relationship between human beings and non-human species. The authors explore the influences of the genealogical model of kinship in wider social theory and examine anthropology’s ability to provide a unique framework capable of bridging the “social” and “natural” sciences. In doing so, this volume brings fresh new perspectives to bear on contemporary theories concerning biotechnology and its effect upon social life.

Kinship. --- Genealogy. --- Human population genetics. --- Parenté --- Généalogie --- Génétique des populations humaines --- Parenté --- Généalogie --- Génétique des populations humaines --- Genealogy --- Human population genetics --- Kinship --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1220 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Ancestry --- Descent --- Family history (Genealogy) --- Family trees --- Genealogical research --- Pedigrees --- Gezinssociologie: vergelijkende en cross-culturele studies --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- History --- Methodology --- Research --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Human genetics --- Population genetics --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Biography --- Heraldry --- Precedence --- Géographie de la population --- Géographie de la population