The syllabus is comprised of books, articles in Readers and online articles.
Required books can be purchased at Akademika bookstore or ordered from online booksellers, such as amazon.co.uk. Required books are also available at the University Library (provided the item is held).
Compendia are purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented on purchasing compendia. If “Kopiutsalget” has sold out of a compendium please contact the department as early as possible in the semester in order that more may be obtained.
Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to https://vpn.uio.no
Books
@ Popoenoe, Rebecca. 2004. Feeding desire. Fatness, beauty and sexuality among a saharan people. London: Routledge. 230 pages.
@ Wilson, Ara. 2004. The intimate economies of Bangkok. Tomboys, tycoons, and Avon ladies in the global city. Berkeley: University of California press. 272 pages.
Curriculum Articles in Readers / Compendium
Bear, Laura. 2013: “‘This Body Is Our Body’: Vishwakarma Puja, the Social Debts of Kinship, and Theologies of Materiality in a Neoliberal Shipyard”, pp 155-179 in McKinnon Susan and Fenella Cannell, eds.: Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press. REFERENCES ON FRONTER
Bordo, Susan R. 1989. “The Body and the Reproduction of Feminity: A feminist appropriation of Foucualt” in Alison M. Jagger and Susan A. Bordo (eds) Gender/Body/ Knowledge. Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. Rutgers University Press. Pp 13 – 33 (20 pages). REFERENCES IN FRONTER
Cadoret, Ann. 2009. “The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on Kinhsip” in Jeanette Edwards and Carles Salazar (eds) European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology. New York: Berghahn Books. Pp 79 – 97 (18 pages)
Carsten, Janet. 2004 [1995]. “The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedeness among the Malays in Pulau Langwaki” in R. Parkin, and L. Stone (eds) Kinship and Family. An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp 309 – 327 (18 pages)
Delaney, Carol (2001). “Cutting the Ties that Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship” pp 445 -467 (22 pages) in Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, eds.: Relative Values. Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Durham: Duke University Press.
Gutman, Mathew C. 1997. The Meanings of Macho. Changing Mexican Male Identities” in L. Lamphere, H. Ragoné and P. Zavella (eds) Situated Lives. Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge. Pp 223 – 234. (12 pages)
Howell, Signe and Marit Melhuus (1993). “The Study of Kinship; the Study of Person; A Study of Gender?” in Teresa del Valle (ed) Gendered Anthropology, London: Routledge. Pp 38 – 53 (15 pages)
Kahn, Susan M. 2004. “Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of Jewishness” in Robert Parkin and Linda Stone (eds) Kinship and Family. An Anthropological Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Pp 362 – 377. (15 pages)
McKinnon, Susan and Fenella Cannell. 2013. “The Difference Kinship Makes", pp 3.-39 (36 pages) in McKinnon Susan and Fenella Cannell, eds.: Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press. REFERENCES ON FRONTER
Melhuus, Marit. 2011. “Cyber-Stork Children and the Norwegian Biotechnology Act: Regulating Procreative Practice” in A. Hellum, S. Sardar and A. Griffiths (eds) From Transantional Relations to Transnational Laws. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. Pp 51 – 70 (19 pages).
Moore, Henrietta. 1999. “Whatever Happened to Women and Men? Gender and Other Crisis in Anthropology” in Henrietta Moore (ed.) Anthropological Theory Today. London: Polity Press. Pp 151-171 (20 pages)
Shever, Elena. 2013 “‘I am a Petroleum Product’: Making Kinship Work on the Patagonian Frontier”, pp 85-108 (23 pages) in McKinnon Susan and Fenella Cannell, eds.: Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press. REFERENCES ON FRONTER
Yanagisako, Sylvia and Jane Collier. 1987. “Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship” in Jane Collier and Sylvia Yanagisako (eds) Gender and Kinship. Essays Toward a Unified Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp 14 – 52 (38 pages).
Yunxiang, Yan (2001). “Practicing Kinship in Rural North China”, pp 224 – 245 (22 pages) in Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, eds.: Relative Values. Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Durham: Duke University Press.
Curriculum Online articles
Cannell, Fenella. 2013. “The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship” in Janet Carsten (ed) Blood will out: essays on liquid transfers and flows, JRAI, Special Issue, pp 77 – 94. (17 pages). onlineLibrary.wiley.com
Kulick, Don. 1997. “Gender of the Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes” in American Anthropologist 99 (3): 574 – 585. (11 pages). online library.wiley.com
Mayblin, Maya. 2013. “The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil” in J. Carsten Blood will out: essays on liquid transfers and flows, JRAI, Special Issue. Pp S42 – S56. (14 pages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Melhuus, Marit. 1998. “Configuring Gender: Male and Female in Mexican Heterosexual and Homosexual Relations” in Ethnos 63 (3): 353 – 382. (29 pages). Taylor & Francis online
Rivière, Peter. 1985. “Unscrambling parenthood. The Warnock Report” in Anthropology Today, 1 (4): 2- 7. (5 pages). jstor.org
Simpson, Bob. 2001. “Making ‘bad’ deaths ‘good’: the kinship consequences of posthumous conception” in Journal of the Anthropological Institute 7 (1): 1 – 18. (17 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Simpson, Bob. 2006. “Scrambling Parenthood: English Kinship and the Prohibited Degrees of Affinity” in Anthropology Today 22 (3): 3 – 6. (3 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Strathern, Marilyn. 1995. “Displacing Knowledge: Technology and the Consequences for Kinship” in Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (eds) Conceiving the New World Order. The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp 346 – 363. alexanderstreet.com
Further recommended reading (not obligatory)
Gutman, Matthew C. 1996. The Meanings of Macho. Being a man in Mexico City. Berkely: University of Califronia Press. (330 pages)
Inhorn, Marica. 2012. The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East.