Kin of Another Kind

Kin of Another Kind
Author: Cynthia Callahan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0472117580

Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver

Kind of Kin

Kind of Kin
Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062198815

In Kind of Kin by award-winning author Rilla Askew, when a church-going, community-loved, family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking development sends ripples through the town—dividing neighbors, causing riffs amongst his family, and spurring controversy across the state. Using new laws in Oklahoma and Alabama as inspiration, Kind of Kin is a story of self-serving lawmakers and complicated lawbreakers, Christian principle and political scapegoating. Rilla Askew’s funny and poignant novel explores what happens when upstanding people are pushed too far—and how an ad-hoc family, and ultimately, an entire town, will unite to protect its own.

More Than Kin and Less Than Kind

More Than Kin and Less Than Kind
Author: Douglas W. Mock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780674012851

Mock tells readers what scientists have discovered about the disturbing side of family conflice in the natural world. He offers a rare perspective on the family as testing ground for the evolutionary limits of selfishness.

Staying with the Trouble

Staying with the Trouble
Author: Donna J. Haraway
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822373785

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

Society of Others

Society of Others
Author: Rupert Stasch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520943325

This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous "tree house" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them. Society of Others, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" societies.

Specimens of Early English

Specimens of Early English
Author: Richard Morris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 646
Release: 1882
Genre: English language
ISBN:

Anthology, from Robert of Gloucester to Gower.