In this thesis I examine familial dynamics and relations between Kenyan migrants in London and their non-migrant kin remaining in Kenya. Two transnational family configurations predominate: younger migrants and their non-migrant parents and siblings, and older transnational couples (migrant wives and non-migrant husbands). If migration is understood as a morally-laden social process, then how migrant and non-migrant kin engage with the distance(s) between them become the grounds on which what it means to be related is expressed and negotiated. Distance emerges not only as geographic and physical, but also as socially generated by the actions and inactions of kin. I argue that the emplacement of kin in different contexts post-migration, particularly younger migrants within a nascent Pentecostal community in London, mediates transnational kin relations. The thesis challenges a predominant strand of research on transnational families, which contends that migration disrupts kin relations and contributes to the commodification of love and care. Moreover, the focus on transnational Kenyan families fills a gap in African diaspora research that has largely focused on migrants from West Africa and issues of identity, diaspora politics, and development, while also addressing themes in African anthropology, such as, intergenerational reciprocity, social reproduction, and change.

The aim of this research is to consider family as a kin network of exchange and to show that manhood and fatherhood is a cultural value transacted within this network. It attempts to also show that such value is variably negotiated as identity is performed in relation to ideological constructs of space. To do this, the physical and ideological space to which kin belong is explored as a cultural borderland, suggesting that men/fathers are able to exceed bounded constructs of identity while also being subject to them. In particular, I try to illuminate some of the dynamics that impact on men’s/fathers’ negotiation of discursive codes of intra-cultural sameness and difference to be valued not only as men/fathers, but as good at being men/fathers. Within this context, some of the symbols of identity that enable a man/father to be good at being a man/father are considered. The ethnography highlights the ways in which men/fathers are able to access and mediate symbolic resources, showing how these processes impact on their positioning on a continuum of self and worth. In this regard, performances of providing in relation to performances of the social and genetic imbrications of kinship constitute a key focus.

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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar dados etnográficos sobre os Guarani Mbyá nas aldeias Tekoá Ytu e Tekoá Pyaú, localizadas junto ao Parque Estadual do Jaraguá, em São Paulo, capital. Foram priorizados os elementos relativos à organização social, parentesco e liderança, os quais formam o pano de fundo desta etnografia. As lideranças indígenas Mbyá são aqui compreendidas como um locus privilegiado para a observação das relações internas do grupo indígena, das relações entre as famílias extensas, entre aldeias diferentes e com os não índios. Suas opiniões, classificações e ordenamento das identidades e das alteridades produzidas nessas relações são descritas e colocadas em diálogo com a literatura etnológica Mbyá clássica e atual. Por fim, discuto a pertinência de se explorar a noção de tekó (o \"modo de ser\") Guarani para se compreender as construções socioculturais deste grupo indígena, e também sugerindo que tal noção participa de forma importante da cosmovisão Mbyá. Também apresento um levantamento sobre a produção acadêmica (Teses e Dissertações) que tem os Guarani como foco de análise. São quase duzentas monografias, de diversas áreas do conhecimento e de diversas instituições de ensino e pesquisa no Brasil, finalizadas a partir da década de 1980. Analiso alguns dos dados que podem ser obtidos desse levantamento, observando o crescimento exponencial dos estudos sobre os Guarani nas últimas décadas. / This work seeks to present ethnographic data concerning the Guarani Mbyá from the Tekoá Ytu and Tekoá Pyaú indigenous lands, located near the Jaraguá State Park in the capital city of São Paulo. Elements pertaining to social organization, kinship, and leadership are given priority, constituting the basis of this ethnography. The indigenous Mbyá leaders are thus seen as a privileged locus for observing relations internal to the indigenous group, relations between kinship groups, among different indigenous lands and with non-indigenous people. Their opinions, classifications and ordering of identities and alterities produced in these relations are described and put in dialogue with the classic and contemporary Mbyá ethnology. In conclusion, I discuss the pertinence of exploring the notion of the tekó (,,way of being\") Guarani to understanding the sociocultural constructs of this indigenous group and suggest the importance of this notion to the Mbyá cosmovision. I also include a bibliographic survey of academic research (Thesis and Dissertations) focused on the Guarani. There are almost two-hundred monographic works from different areas of knowledge and different educational and research institutes in Brazil, from the decade of 1980 on. I present an analysis of some information gathered from this survey, observing the exponential expansion of studies concerning the Guarani during the last decades.

Thesis advisor: Ruth McRoy / Historically, many midlife African American women have served as kinship care providers for children in the family. These parenting responsibilities present even greater challenges for the increasing and disproportionately high number of African American women in this age group who also are living with HIV/AIDS. Even though there have been technological innovations in treating and managing HIV infection, HIV is the fourth leading cause of death among midlife African American women. Despite the existing research on African American women with HIV/AIDS and on African American kinship caregivers, significant research with a specific focus on resiliency within this population has not been conducted. To fill this gap, using a resiliency model as a conceptual framework, the researcher conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with a convenience sample of 24 middle-aged African American women with HIV/AIDS who are providing informal kinship care. Implications for policy, research, and practice are provided and suggestions for health care providers and child welfare professionals regarding how to support these women and children through enhanced services and other interventions. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work. / Discipline: Social Work.

Esta tese consiste na etnografia dos Deni do rio Cuniuá, localizados no sudoeste do estado do Amazonas e falantes de uma língua da família linguística arawá. Esta parte da população Deni vive em um relativo isolamento frente à sociedade brasileira, num cenário que contrasta com o intenso contato que mantinham algumas décadas atrás. A situação atual é antes o resultado de fatores histórico, como a crise do extrativismo e a demarcação das Terras Indígenas na região, do que do desejo dos próprios indígenas. A abordagem adotada coloca em primeiro plano o parentesco Deni, tomado como fio condutor e não como limite da análise. Abordando algumas temáticas da cosmologia deni, como a questão dos brancos, dos coletivos, da relação com os animais, da noção de pessoa, do casamento e dos vínculos de filiação, mostramos como o parentesco, longe de ser um domínio isolado, está relacionado com vários outros elementos do mundo. Realizamos aqui um exercício baseado em uma metodologia experimental para o estudo de genealogias, demonstrando como alguns aspectos do cosmos Deni influenciam suas práticas matrimoniais. / This thesis is an ethnographic account of the Deni people, who live on the River Cuniuá at the Southwest corner of the Amazonas State and speak a language that belongs to the arawan family. This part of the Deni population currently lives in relative isolation from Brazilian society, which contrasts with the intense contacts of a few decades ago. The current situation is a direct result of historical factors such as the crisis of the extraction industry and the demarcation of native-land, and not the Denis own desire. The approach adopted by the present work focuses on, but is not limited by, Deni kinship. It addresses some elements of Deni cosmology, such as their relations with the whites, the nominated groups, the animals, as well as their conception of personhood, marriage and filiation, and demonstrates the manner in which kinship relates to several other elements of the their world. The present work conducts an exercise based on an experimental methodology for studies of genealogy, thus demonstrating how some aspects of the Deni cosmos play an influence on their marriage practices.

郭錦洲. / "2008年8月". / "2008 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-134). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Guo Jinzhou. / 序言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 地方社會與王權一一元末明初鮑氏的發展 --- p.17 / Chapter 第一節 --- 「父子爭死」 --- p.17 / Chapter 第二節 --- 入《宋史》的背後 --- p.20 / Chapter 第三節 --- 兩種身份：地方精英與儒學 --- p.24 / Chapter 第四節 --- 《孝順事實》 --- p.27 / 小結 --- p.30 / Chapter 第二章 --- 墳庵、社壇與祠堂一一祭祀和控產的演變 --- p.32 / Chapter 第一節 --- 墳庵 --- p.32 / Chapter 第二節 --- 社壇 --- p.35 / Chapter 第三節 --- 祠堂 --- p.40 / 小結 --- p.45 / Chapter 第三章 --- 清代鮑氏宗族的重塑 --- p.48 / Chapter 第一節 --- 族譜的創立一一鮑琮與鮑志道 --- p.49 / Chapter 第二節 --- 族譜的歷史和創新 --- p.53 / Chapter 第三節 --- 重修宣忠堂 --- p.58 / 小結 --- p.65 / Chapter 第四章 --- 棠樾村內鮑氏宗族的整合 --- p.66 / Chapter 第一節 --- 龍山慈孝堂 --- p.66 / Chapter 第二節 --- 棠樾敦本堂 --- p.69 / Chapter 第三節 --- 世孝祠一整合不同派系的宗祠 --- p.78 / 小結 --- p.83 / Chapter 第五章 --- 義田的設立和管理 / Chapter 第一節 --- 宣忠戶與節儉戶 --- p.88 / Chapter 第二節 --- 私田到義田 --- p.94 / Chapter 第三節 --- 義田的登記和課稅 --- p.101 / Chapter 第四節 --- 信託財產 --- p.111 / 小結 --- p.116 / 結論：棠樾鮑氏宗族與義田 --- p.118 / 參考文獻 --- p.130 / 論文附錄 / 附錄1：慈孝里坊和御詩 --- p.i / 附錄2：貞白里坊 --- p.ii / 附錄3：鮑氏第四代至十六代世系圖 --- p.iii / 附錄4：鄭玉師承圖 --- p.iv / 附錄5：孝順事實 --- p.v / 附錄6：大和社柱腳 --- p.v / 附圖7：明末至清中葉棠樾村圖 --- p.vi / 附錄8：清朝棠樾村圖， --- p.vii / 附錄9：宣忠堂圖 --- p.viii / 附錄10：宣忠堂祭位圖 --- p.ix / 附錄11：始祖墓 --- p.x / 附錄12：鮑慶雲墓 --- p.x / 附錄13：敦本堂祭位圖 --- p.xi / 附圖14：敦本堂 --- p.xii / 附圖15：敦本堂內木主 --- p.xii / 附錄16：現時敦本堂門匾 --- p.xiii / 附錄17：1990年代敦本堂剛重修後的門匾 --- p.xiii / 附錄18：家廟圖 --- p.xiv / 附錄19：鮑氏宗族、宣忠支派、三大房、十四分支關係圖 --- p.xv / 附錄20：現時棠樾村地圖 --- p.xvi / 附錄21：棠樾村地理位置圖 --- p.xvii / 附錄22：宣忠支派第16至27代關係圖 --- p.xviii / 附錄23：1785至1820年棠樾村大事表 --- p.xxi

With effect from 1st April 2005, UK law was amended such that gamete donors must now consent to their identity being released to their donor offspring, should they request it after the age of eighteen. This qualitative study investigates the views and experiences of those donating in this new context. Drawing primarily on twenty-four in-depth interviews with donors, supplemented by twenty staff interviews and observation in two fertility clinics, I examine how donors make sense of their role in relation to offspring, recipients and the wider community. I argue that donors make sense of their role as “biological” parents to offspring through creative reference to kinship repertoires, drawing on their own experiences of “doing family.” However, crucially, kinship connections are always qualified in some way to show that they are not quite family to donor offspring, and certainly not their “real” parent. Often this discursive work involved emphasising their relationship to recipients or the wider community (rather than offspring), framing the donation as a gift or a public act. In addition, donors drew on their kinship expertise to dilute, reshape or “re-route” their connection to offspring. Ultimately, this is a thesis about the limiting work involved in “doing kinship.” I demonstrate that donors did this limiting work in highly creative ways, not restricted to forgetting or ignoring connections. Instead, I show that not constructing kinship claims can be as active a process as making them.

This thesis explores young people's experiences of, and orientations towards, being and becoming. Using focus groups and interviews with participants aged between 11 and 15, the research investigates how young people form a sense of who they are and who they can become in terms of character, temperament, talents, intelligence, humour, appearance and so on. Particular attention is paid to the role of relationality, and especially siblingship, in these processes as well as to how young people themselves make sense of and theorise being and becoming. The research shines analytical and methodological 'spotlights' on key contexts, relationships and modes of thinking which highlight processes of being and becoming in new and interesting ways. A spotlight on the context of secondary school indicates how ways of being and becoming can be created and constrained by the particularities of the environment of school. A spotlight on being and becoming in a group of friends indicates young people's reflexivity about the moralities of being different to friends, despite the largely homophilous nature of these relationships, and reveals some of the ways in which young people's friendships can affect who they are and who they see themselves as becoming in the future. A spotlight on young people's sibling relationships fills a gap in existing knowledge about the role of lateral kin in shaping young people's lives and indicates how siblings can be a source of social capital (for good or ill) in school. It is also argued that being one in a series of siblings can 'fix' aspects of being and becoming in several ways, including through the construction of relational identities in families and through normative ideas about how siblings ought to behave. Finally, the thesis shines a spotlight on young people's understandings of modes of transmission and the nature of personhood, indicating how young people can think in nuanced and complex ways about how being and becoming works. Taken together the spotlights of this thesis indicate how young people form a sense of who they are and who they can become whilst embedded in webs of relationships through time. The thesis demonstrates that, despite being relational and contextual, processes of being and becoming can feel as though they become 'fixed' as the potential for how one can 'turn out' is limited. It is argued that the lay concept of 'turning out' evokes the idea that, although always continuing through time, we will one day 'turn out' and be 'finished'. As such, this thesis suggests that the concept of 'turning out' allows sociologists to think about being and becoming simultaneously. 'Turning out' also encourages an understanding of the social world that embraces ideas which can seem 'contradictory' in sociological terms - such as fixity and malleability, individuality and relationality or genetic and social inheritance. Finally, it is argued that 'turning out' denotes a broader understanding of personhood than those evoked in familiar sociological terms - such as the self, identity and habitus - and incorporates aspects of being and becoming that might otherwise appear somewhat beyond the social.

張小軍. / 論文(博士)--香港中文大學人類學學部, 1997. / 參考文獻: p. 287-301. / Available also through the Internet via Dissertations & theses @ Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Zhang Xiaojun. / Lun wen (Bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue ren lei xue xue bu, 1997. / Can kao wen xian: p. 287-301.