Ethics of kinship ethnographic inquiries

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Toward an anthropology of the ethics of kinship / James D. Faubion -- Caring and being cared for : displacing marriage, kinship, gender, and sexuality / John Borneman -- Rainbow family, rainbow nation : reflections on relatives and relational dynamics in Trinidad / Denise Youngblood -- Personalizing it : adoption, bastardy, kinship, and family / Jamila Bargach -- A kinship of one's own / Lamia Karim -- Kousi oda ponnu (Kousi's daughter) / Deepa S. Reddy -- The ethics of affect : the public politics of intimacy in the Bloomsbury group and Sammy and Rosie get laid / Nityanand Deckha -- This week the blue room : locating kinship in a split-level house / Susan Ossman -- What we bring to the table : the means of imagination in an African American family / Stanford W. Carpenter -- "Like family to me" : families of origin, families of choice, and class mobility / Laurel George -- Be/longings / Kristin Peterson -- Family I imagine / Carolyn Babula.