1st Edition
Kinship as Fiction Exploring the Dynamism of Intimate Relationships in India
Introduction - Kinship as fiction: Exploring the dynamism of intimate relationships in South Asia
Yoko Taguchi and Anindita Majumdar
1. Imagined and unimagined relatedness: a child of ‘one’s own’ in third-party reproduction in India
Mizuho Matsuo
2. Remembering deceased kin through assisted conception in India
Anindita Majumdar
3. Fiction in the making of intimacy in old age: a case from Sri Lanka
Sae Nakamura
4. The fiction of ‘fluid nuclear units’: rearticulating relations through domestic work in Mumbai
Yoko Taguchi
5. Reimagining familial relationships: intimate networks and kinship practices in Odisha, India
Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe
6. Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families
Ester Gallo
7. Identifying ‘authorized users’, identifying kin: Negotiating relational worlds through Geographical Indications registration
Chandan Bose
Biography
Anindita Majumdar is Associate Professor of Anthropology-Sociology at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Her research interests include reproduction, infertility, clinical medicine, and reproductive technologies. Anindita is the author of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)making of Kin in India, and Surrogacy: Oxford India Short Introductions.
Yoko Taguchi is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor at Eikei University of Hiroshima, Japan. Her current research focuses on domestic work in urban India, exploring the dynamics of care work and family/kinship/social relations.
