Kinship: Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of Epigenetics

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 292-306

  Yates Doerr, Emily ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

from "Food is Love" to "Food is Health," Guatemalan women, and food; Kinship and reproduction; Kinship, bodily betrayal love and anger in the time of epigenetics; Kinship, revolutionized understanding kinship as a system of power; Mama Carla's anger new culinary obligations, global changes on women, like Mama Carl; Mama Carla's bodily betrayal, challenging diabetes and the reproductive potential; New reproductive technologies and epigenetics; Studies of kinship central to anthropology; Themes in Mama Carla's conversations reverberating in stories of other women; Understanding Mama Carla's anger changing context, traditional position

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879660861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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