Naturalizing Power

Part 1 American Kinship and the Facts of Life; Chapter 1 American Kinship/American Incest: Asymmetries in a Scientific Discourse, Susan McKinnon; Chapter 2 Family Law and the Facts of Family, Janet L. Dolgin; Chapter 3 Heredity, or: Revising the Facts of Life, Rayna Rapp; Chapter 4 Forever Is a Long Time: Romancing the Real in Gay Kinship Ideologies, Kath Weston; Part 2 The Birds and the Bees: An Uncontrolled Comparison; Chapter 5 Empowering Nature, or: Some Gleanings in Bee Culture, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; Chapter 6 The Gender of Birds in a Mountain Ok Culture, Harriet Whitehead; Part 3 The Origin of Nations; Chapter 7 Father State, Motherland, and the Birth of Modern Turkey, CarolDelaney; Chapter 8 Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights, Brackette F. Williams; Part 4 The American Dream: Gender, Class and Ethnicity; Chapter 9 “The Self-Made Woman”: Gender and the Success Story in Greek-American Family Histories, Phyllis Pease Chock; Chapter 10 Ethnography Among the Newark: The Class of ’58 of Weequahic High School, Sherry B. Ortner; Chapter 11 Transforming Orientalism: Gender, Nationality, and Class in Asian American Studies, Sylvia Yanagisako;