Family and Kinship

Мир «своих» и «чужих». По праву кровного родства: родовые структуры и брачные стратегии в прошлом и настоящем народов Евразии / The world of ‘Self’ and ‘Others’. By Right of Consanguinity: Clan structures and matrimonial strategies in past and present of Eurasian peoples

В этом выпуске мы предлагаем авторам и читателям рассмотреть проблему взаимоотношений между «своими» и «чужими» в рамках такого исследовательского направления как kinship studies.
Здесь, как ни в какой другой дисциплине, можно обнаружить нагляднейший и в то же время нетривиальный материал, который дает нам возможность изучать механизмы социального группирования и отчуждения / исключения. Различные системы родства и соответствующие им терминологии и иерархии могут показать внимательному наблюдателю как сходства, так и различия в стратегии и тактике интеграции / дифференциации сообществ, а метафоричность языка этих систем позволяет нам вернуться, возможно, на более высоком уровне обобщения, и к масштабу макро-анализа.

In this issue of “Tartaria Magna” we offer our authors and readers to consider a problem of interrelations between “insiders” and “outsiders” within kinship studies research trend. Here, as in no other scholarly discipline, one may come across most illustrative and, at the same time, unconventional research material giving us a chance to study mechanisms of social grouping and estrangement/exclusion. Various system of kinship and their relevant terminologies and hierarchies may expose to an attentive eye both similarities and differences in the strategy and tactics of community integration/differentiation. The metaphorical character of these systems allows us to return, perhaps, at a higher level of generalization, to macro-analysis.

Consistent with inclusive fitness theory, evolutionary biologists predict that individuals care more for their biological than their social children and hence that biological children assess the relationships to their parents better than stepchildren. To test this assumption, we use data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Unlike many other studies that have been conducted so far, this survey allows us to analyze the consequences of the dynamic between social and biological parent-child relationships within the same families. We use comparisons of sibling pairs and fixed-effects regression to achieve the within-family comparison. Both the descriptive and multivariate regression results confirm that – even after controlling for other relevant influences – biological parenthood matters with regard to children’s relationship assessments (perceived parental care and closeness of the parent-child relationship) and in both the relationships to resi...

Erdbeben sind immer auch politische Ereignisse, die Machtverhältnisse in Gesellschaften aufbrechen. In dieser Ethnografie des Wiederaufbaus nach dem Erdbeben 2005 in Azad Kaschmir untersuche ich alltägliche Widersprüche und Konflikte in und um Politik, Bürokratie und die häusliche Familie. Ich zeichne nach, wie staatliche Wiederaufbaubestrebungen Menschen, ihre Stadt und Häuser regierten und so auch Widerstände gegen Ungleichheiten befeuerten. Mein Buch erweitert die sozialanthropologische Naturkatastrophenforschung u.a. um eine Ethnografie des Regierens und Regiert-Werdens und leistet einen Beitrag zur Sozial- und Politikanthropologie Pakistans und Kaschmirs.

We invite you to this two-day workshop to explore the multiple ways in which family (un)making, nation building, race, gender, and genetic technologies intertwine. Processes of nation building and family making are closely intertwined. However, their intersection has assumed new and unprecedented qualities over the last decades due to the increasingly widespread application of genetic and/or genomic technologies in assessing people's bodies in areas as diverse as health care, reproduction, forensics and migration control. What dynamics of attachments do these technologies perpetuate? How do they undergird and nurture particular visions of family making, relatedness, and citizenship while rendering others unthinkable and undoable? How are bodies targeted unequally across racialized and gendered hierarchies by these technologies? Addressing these questions while focusing on various geopolitical contexts, this workshop seeks to explore the ongoing relocation and dislocation of contestations over family making, national (non)belonging, identity and citizenship to the genomic level. We welcome presentations for the following sub-themes:  Usages of medical technologies for non-medical and non-healthcare purposes  Algorithms of inequalities, big-data, and genetics  Human rights of dead-bodies, genocide, and development of medical research Deadline for submission of abstract (max. 250 words): 19 May 2018 (acceptance notification: 25 May 2018) To book a place, please visit: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/nation-building-family-un-making-and-genetic-technologies/ For abstract submission and further information, please contact the organizers Linda Lund Pedersen and Maria Kramer (LSE): [email protected]