Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction Politics of Making Kinship 1
6. Part I. Epistemologies
7. Introduction 23
8. Chapter 1. Quantifying Generation: Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship Calculation 29
9. Chapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850 53
10. Chapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the “Genealogical Method” 79
11. Chapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social Anthropology 114
12. Chapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and an Epistemic Void 144
13. Part II. Projects
14. Introduction 167
15. Chapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and Parsons 172
16. Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories: Bodin’s and Hotman’s Ideas of Monarchy 204
17. Chapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America 235
18. Chapter 9. Toward a Political Economy of the Maternal Body: Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French Feminism 262
19. Part III Deployments
20. Introduction 291
21. Chapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin 296
22. Chapter 11. “As If Begotten and Born of Freeborn Parents”: Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman Occident 324
23. Chapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in Norway 354
24. Chapter 13 Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State Theories 377
25. Chapter 14 Translating the Family 398
26. Index 417