Difficult attachments

• Titel: Difficult attachments
• Titelzusatz: anxieties of kinship and care
• Mitwirkende: Goldfarb, Kathryn E. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Bamford, Sandra C. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Strathern, Marilyn [VerfasserIn eines Nachworts]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Sandra Bamford ; afterword by Marilyn Strathern
• Verlagsort: New Brunswick ; Camden ; Newark, New Jersey$London$Oxford
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• E-Jahr: 2025
• Jahr: [2025]
• Umfang: ix, 261 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-9788-4142-0
• ISBN: 978-1-9788-4143-7
• Schlagwörter: (s)Verwandtschaft / (s)Angehöriger / (s)Pflege / (s)Verweigerung
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Difficult attachments. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2025] |(DLC)2024003641
• K10plus-PPN: 1890641375

Abstract

"Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accouns and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But, what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but 'warm and fuzzy', but is characterized, instead, by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of nuturance and care? In the three interlinked sections of this volume, the view that kinship is about "solidarity" and "care" is challenged by exploring now kin relations are not only about connection and inclusion, but are also about disconnection, exclusion, neglect, and violence. Kinship relationships that feel "positive" and "good" take a great deal of perseverance and work; there is nothing "natural" about kinship ties as being based on positive sociality. In these chapters, the contributors take seriously the contingency of kinship relations (the moments when kinship breaks down or is a source of suffering) and how this prompts scholars to develop new theoretical and methodological perspective"--