12 articles in this issue
Corinna Sabrina Guerzoni,Alice Sophie Sarcinelli
The EASA2016 Conference “Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures”, held at the University of Milan Bicocca in 2016, invited scholars to reflect on the legacy of anthropological studies “dealing with new forms of livelihoods, symbolic practices and mate... see more
Agnès Martial
Analysing the case of France, this article presents a reflection on the notion of multi-parenthood in the study of contemporary family models – adopted families, stepfamilies, donor-conceived families in the context of ART. It retraces the recent use of t... see more
Simonetta Grilli
This essay deals with the meaning of family resemblances from the perspective of infertile couples who resort to assisted reproduction involving donation of gametes or embryos. Focusing on an online discussion forum, we try to grasp the value of resemblan... see more
Anaïs Martin
This article questions the notion of kinning through the analysis of resemblance and transmission talk in the narratives of French donor offspring. Between February 2015 and May 2016, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 French sperm donor co... see more
Alice Sophie Sarcinelli,Charlotte Simon
Lesbian-parented families without legal recognition are subjected to power of the State, which defines who is kin and who is not. This article focuses on the ways in which such families use a range of kinning practices to claim the right for all intention... see more
Zsuzsa Berend,Corinna Sabrina Guerzoni
This article compares three different research projects on US surrogacy, covering a period of about fifteen years. We will reconsider processes scholars call kinning (Howell 2006) and de-kinning (Fonseca 2011) as we aim to capture notions about relationsh... see more
Rosa Parisi
Mixed families, in Europe as in Italy, constitute a rapidly expanding phenomenon. This essay analyses the way in which extraneousness-otherness are embodied in the kinning of the mixed couples involved. The paper is divided into two sections; in the first... see more
Alessandro Gusman
Uno degli aspetti più significativi dell’espansione del Pentecostalismo in Africa è la creazione di centri di deliverance, che si presentano come spazi di liberazione dagli spiriti del male e di soluzione ai problemi della vita quotidiana e familiare.Attr... see more
Veronica Redini
Con il contributo dei materiali di un’etnografia condotta in Moldova, lo scopo di questo articolo è di esaminare criticamente alcune delle nozioni più utilizzate nell’analisi del lavoro nella produzione globale. Attraverso le testimonianze di subappaltato... see more
Francesco Vietti
Gli antropologi, a fronte di una spiccata riflessività in merito alla metodologia di ricerca e alle forme di restituzione del proprio lavoro, si sono raramente interrogati a proposito delle prospettive pedagogiche e alle strategie didattiche che dovrebber... see more
Recensioni Recensioni
Mara Benadusi - Ivan Severi, 2018, Quick and Dirty. Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale Raúl Zecca Castel - Miller et Al, 2018, Come il mondo ha cambiato i social media Giacomo Pozzi - Pietro Saitta, 2018, Prendere le case. Fantasmi del sinda... see more
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