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The commodification of kin
The commodification of kin
Week 6: Global gifts and body shopping
Ryan Schram
ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world
Wednesday, September 07, 2022
Slides available at https://anthro.rschram.org/1002/2022/6.2
Main reading: Zharkevich (2019)
Other reading: Krause and Bressan (2018); Leinaweaver (2010); Vora (2009)
References and further reading
Krause, Elizabeth L., and Massimo Bressan. 2018. “Circulating Children, Underwriting Capitalism: Chinese Global Households and Fast Fashion in Italy.” Current Anthropology 59 (5): 572–95. https://doi.org/10.1086/699826.
Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. 2010. “Outsourcing Care: How Peruvian Migrants Meet Transnational Family Obligations.” Latin American Perspectives 37 (5): 67–87. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X10380222.
Vora, Kalindi. 2009. “Indian Transnational Surrogacy and the Commodification of Vital Energy.” Subjectivity 28 (1): 266–78. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2009.14.
Zharkevich, Ina. 2019. “Money and Blood: Remittances as a Substance of Relatedness in Transnational Families in Nepal.” American Anthropologist 121 (4): 884–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13316.