Anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Robert Lemelson discusses contemporary approaches to kinship as a social practice rather than biological inheritance. You’ll learn how anthropologists think through the emerging practices, symbols, and values of queer family-making, new reproductive technologies such as egg donation and surrogacy, and transracial adoption. To see how these more recent developments in family building relate to historical and cross-cultural understandings of family structure, be sure to watch all the videos in the AnthroDorphins kinship series.
CHAPTERS
00:15 Introduction
00:55 What makes a family?
01:17 Queering Kinship
03:26 Surrogacy and (Non) Kinship
04:56 Transracial Adoption
07:51 Kinship without marriage or reproduction
09:15 Discussion
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