| Summary: | List of figures -- Introduction: pedigrees of knowledge: anthropology and the genealogical method / Sandra Bamford and James Leach -- 1. Arborescent culture: writing and not writing racehorse pedigrees / Rebecca Cassidy -- 2. When blood matters: making kinship in colonial Kenya / J. Teresa Holmes -- 3. The web of kin: an online genealogical machine / Gísli Pálsson -- 4. Genes, mobilities and the enclosures of capital: contesting ancestry and its applications in Iceland / Hilary Cunningham -- 5. Skipping a generation and assisting conception / Jeanette Edwards -- 6. 'Family trees' among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea: a non-genealogical approach to imagining relatedness / Sandra Bamford -- 7. Knowledge as kinship: mutable essence and significance of transmission on the Rai coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- 8. Stories against classification: transport, wayfaring and the integration of knowledge / Tim Ingold -- 9. Revealing and obscuring river's pedigrees: biological inheritance and kinship in Madagascar / Rita Astuti -- 10. The gift and the given: three nano-essays on kinship and magic / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- List of contributors -- Index
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