Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship Power and Technological Innovation

Focusing on the key themes of power kinship and technological innovation this volume offers a set of carefully argued empirical studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method as well as anthropological theory to current debates about the reproductive processes of humans animals and plants. In chapters on abortion assisted conception biodiversity conservation artificial life sciences adoption intellectual property and prenatal screening Reproducing Reproduction contends that ideologies of class nation health gender nature and kinship have reproductive models at their core.