Introduction

Autor(en)

Tatjana Thelen, Christof Lammer

Abstrakt

Widespread procedures to measure what is taken to be kinship condition negotiations of various forms of belonging (family, ethnicity, nation, race, and even humanity). Kinship measurements require indicators, evidence, and persuasive display to become institutionalized. This introduction shows these measurements’ generative force, which enables their translation into differentiated access to resources. Kinship measurements pull together different and sometimes contrasting ideas, practices, and materialities. Different measurements can add up, mutually reinforcing each other, and reach thresholds for inclusion or exclusion. Yet most often they remain contested, produce gradual results, and do not achieve closure. Grouping them together as assessments of closeness or similarity, we explore the productivity of kinship measurements in diverse settings, such as medicine, bureaucracy, and ritual, to demonstrate how they shape inequalities and marginalizations.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

Journal

Social Analysis

Band

65

Seiten

1-22

Anzahl der Seiten

22

ISSN

0155-977X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650401

Publikationsdatum

2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504017 Kulturanthropologie, 504007 Empirische Sozialforschung, 504008 Ethnographie, 504009 Ethnologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Cultural Studies, Allgemeine Kunst und Geisteswissenschaften, Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/6f6e9600-6fe4-466e-a5e8-cc803d198ad0