Born and Bred

• * Adds significantly to the growing ethnography of contemporary Western society
• * Provides an insight into attitudes towards new reproductive technologies (NRTs)

Readership: Social anthropologists, sociologists, students of social policy and administration, law, philosophy, and reproductive medicine

Jeanette Edwards, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

"Born and bred is an important contribution to the ethnographic record ... it identifies an under-researched context ... Born and bred constitutes a useful anthropological contribution to the bigger debate" - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Richly detailed ... [Edwards] carried out the kind of detailed, long-term participant-observation which is becoming all too rare in Western societies" - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Part 1: In Social Anthropology
Familiar Places
Why Kinship?
Part 2: In Bacup
Naming and Placing
In-Migration and Out-Migration
Houses and Homes
The Same and Different
Common Knowledge
Part 3: In Kinship
An Expertise in Kinship
Gametes Need Names