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Many of the blood dyscrasias show more or less distinct inheritability and the familial character offers no new problem. But the racial specificity [of sickle cell anemia] is unique. If found to hold true, this would indicate that the primary basis for the disease must be laid in conditions far removed from any possible accident of the environment…. [W]e must assume that "the disease depends primarily on some fundamental racial peculiarity of the blood forming tissues.—G. S. Graham (1924)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies -- PART I Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext -- 1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism -- 2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver -- 3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology -- 4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life -- PART II Kinship Negotiations: What's Biology Not/Got to Do with It -- 5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/ Class Politics of Blood Transfusion -- 6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic -- 7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption -- 8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China -- 9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting -- PART III Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship -- 10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory -- 11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies -- PART IV 'R' Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies -- 12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa -- 13. ''We're Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are'': Science and Relatedness -- 14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet -- PART V Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship -- 15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s -- 16. Cutting the Ties That Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship -- 17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act -- Contributors -- Index