How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical
constructs and generalities about social existence? Kinship, Law
and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of studies of
society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships.
Relationality is a phenomenon at once contingent on certain ways
of knowing and ubiquitous to social life. The role of relations
in western Euro-American knowledge practices, from the scientific
revolution onwards, raises a question about
目錄:
Preface page vii
PART ONE. DIVIDED ORIGINS
Introduction: Divided Origins
The Child’s Two Bodies
A Tool
Divided Origins
1 Relatives Are Always a Surprise: Biotechnology in an
Age of Individualism
An Age of Individualism
Adding Debate
Individual and Common Interests
Recombinant Families
Thinking About Relatives
2 Embedded Science
Isolated Knowledge
Relations Everywhere
Kinship Uncovered
Caveat
3 Emergent Properties
I
Multiple Origins
An Analogy
II
Offspring into Property
Information into Knowledge
Relations into Relations
III
Kinship and Knowledge
The Informational Family
PART TWO. THE ARITHMETIC OF OWNERSHIP
Introduction: The Arithmetic of Ownership
Conception by Intent
Leaving ‘Knowledge’ to One Side
The Arithmetic of Ownership
4 The Patent and the Malanggan
Introducing the Body
Enchantment
Return to New Ireland – 1
Patenting Technology
Return to New Ireland – 2
5 Losing out on Intellectual Resources
I
The Terms of an Agreement
Tradition and Modernity
II
Body Ownership
Whole Persons: Things
Part Persons: Agents
III
Decontextualisation
Intellectual Resources
6 Divided Origins and the Arithmetic of Ownership
I
II
Counting People: Murik
Analogous Worlds
Counting Ancestors: Omie
Owners and Makers
Propagating Images
III
Intellectual Products?
Ownership of Persons?
Single and Multiple Origins
Applied Maths
IV
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index