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Narrative Kinning in Contemporary Memoirs of Korean Adoption
This chapter explores the connection between life writing and kinship in a number of narratives by adoptees from South Korea to the US and Sweden. I...
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The Power of Ordinary Things: How Parents’ Support of Refugees Shape Mothering and New Forms of Kinning
Since the refugee crisis in 2015 the political landscape in Sweden has changed. There has been a discursive shift from hospitality to hostility....
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The ongoing work of kinship among donor half-siblings in The Netherlands
This article explores how Dutch people conceived via sperm donation attempted to make or unmake kinship with donor half-siblings, ‘strangers’ who are...
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Producing and Reproducing the Business Family Across Generations: The Importance of Narratives in German Business Families
Based on long-term qualitative research with century-old business families in the German context, we emphasize the role of narratives. Understood as...
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Kinship Idioms and Care-Control Dynamics in Hungarian Co-ethnic Philanthropy
The paper investigates processes and consequences of ‘philanthropic kinning’, that is the use of kinship and family idioms in constructing and...
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How ‘Enduring Family Bonds’ Are Made: Insights from Fulɓe Kinship Enterprises in Northern Benin
This chapter examines current processes of family formation in agro-pastoral Fulɓe ‘kinship enterprises’ in Northern Benin based on empirical data...
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Affective Animacy and Temporalities in Danish Women’s Accounts of Cryopreserved Embryos
Based on 11 interviews with Danish women who have undergone fertility treatments, and have at least one embryo cryopreserved, in this chapter, I...
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An Introduction to Family Firms and Business Families from the Anthropological Perspective: Concepts, Reflections and Ethnographic Observations
This introduction and the whole volume aim to incorporate anthropological research and analysis into the study of family businesses and business...
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Conclusion
The current volume draws attention to anthropological approaches to the study of the kinship-economy nexus. For this, empirical contributions from...
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Transnational Ageing, Intergenerational Family Ties and the Social Embedding of Older Italian Migrants in Australia
There is limited analysis of how migration has affected the experience of ageing and intergenerational relationships within transnational families....
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Close Relations and Boundary Work: Family, Kinship and Beyond
Questions about, and definitions of, close relations often raise heated debate, for they concern fundamental ideas about personal and collective...
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Migrant Eldercare Workers in Asia
Across a number of Asian societies, there is a widespread narrative that eldercare is the responsibility of kin. Yet both historically and in the...
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Redefining the Boundaries of Family and Personal Relationships
This chapter focuses on research developments which, in recent decades, have contributed to redefining what sociology considers to be family and...
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Sibling Support in Transnational Families: The Impact of Migration and Mobility on Sibling Relationships of Support Over Time and Distance
An increasing number of migrants are separated from their family by distance. Despite the geographic separation, these migrants and their relatives...
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Successful Ageing: The Novel Perspectives and Experiences of Vietnamese Migrants in Australia
Existing studies on successful ageing have been criticised for their western-centric approach. To address this criticism, this study presents...
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Care as a Frame for Understanding the Mutual Constitution of State and Kinship
In this introduction I present the conceptual frame for my book. The starting premise of the book is that state care offers an entry point to explore...
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Care in the Children’s Home and Wider Circles of Belonging
This chapter centres on relationships outside the family, namely to carers, teachers, villagers and peers, as well as belonging to an ethnic...
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Doing Home with Care in Ageing Societies
In this chapter, we articulate this volume’s key conceptualization of home as a verb. The book’s aspiration is to unlock home, and look at the work...
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Prehistoric Art as a Boundary Object: Technology and Temporality of South African Petroglyphs
Decades ago I argued for the limited analytic purchase of the term “art.” I was then primarily concerned with the relatively recent invention of the...
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Theoretische Grundlagen
Zur Erfassung multilokaler mehrgenerationaler Familienbeziehungen in deren gesamter Komplexität rekuriert die vorliegende Arbeit auf das Verständnis...