Sandra Bamford
Biographic Data
| ID | 433752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Bamford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bamford |
| SIGNATURE | BAMFORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Difficult Attachments
Chapter 6 ‘Family Trees’ Among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea
The power of potential
Despite their low and inconsistent rates of success, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are presented by fertility clinics and constructed in media and popular culture as an effective treatment for infertility. The ways in which such technologies medicalize women's health and bodies have been well documented by social scientists and feminist health researchers. However, little is known about the struggles women face in cases of "failure"; …
The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
Presenting twenty-nine original chapters - each written by an expert in the field – this Handbook examines the history of kinship theory and the directions in which it has moved over the past few years. Using examples from across the globe (Africa, India, South America, Malaysia, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North America), this Handbook highlights the power of kinship theory to address questions of broad anthropological significance. How have r…
Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
Kinship and Beyond
Kinship and Beyond
The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled “kinship.” The detailed ethnographic work and analysis included in this text explores how these assumptions …
Exchanging skin
Conceiving relatedness
This article considers the implications of imagining kinship as a non-embodied relation. In recent years, it has become commonplace to argue that relatedness is a gradually acquired state that can be built over time and by non-sexual means. In this view, relationships of consanguinity are not given at birth but are created through purposeful acts of feeding and caring. Here, I address a question that has been less commonly asked by anthropologist…
On Being 'Natural' in the Rainforest Marketplace
A recent article in the popular journal Scientific American begins with the claim that scientists have succeeded in “cracking the code of life.” Two decades ago, such an announcement would have been met with wonder and amazement. Today, it is likely to elicit a far more subdued response. Over the past few years, we have grown accustomed to reading about the “miracles” of modern science. The expanding use of new reproductive technologies, genetic …
Times Enmeshed
Fieldwork Revisited
To eat for another
Meyer Fortes once wrote about the privileged place that food taboos occupy in the discipline of anthropology. Eating, he argued, is a uniquely individual act in that each person must eat for her or himself – it is not an activity that one person can undertake for another (also quoted in M. Strathern 1988:20). Furthermore, eating is both “organic” and “social”: “it is a means by which we are not merely made aware of an external reality but take pe…
Beyond the Global
In this article, I reflect upon the meaning of the "global" in contemporary debates concerning the nature of cross‐cultural dialogues. I argue that the "global" is made up of competing dialogues, positions, and meanings that are themselves often set in opposition to one another. Drawing upon my own research among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea, I discuss how the existence of competing perspectives in contemporary fieldwork situations complicates o…
Preliminary Statement for 1996 Special Issue, Fieldwork Revisited
Conceiving relatedness
This article considers the implications of imagining kinship as a non-embodied relation. In recent years, it has become commonplace to argue that relatedness is a gradually acquired state that can be built over time and by non-sexual means. In this view, relationships of consanguinity are not given at birth but are created through purposeful acts of feeding and caring. Here, I address a question that has been less commonly asked by anthropologist…
On Being 'Natural' in the Rainforest Marketplace
A recent article in the popular journal Scientific American begins with the claim that scientists have succeeded in “cracking the code of life.” Two decades ago, such an announcement would have been met with wonder and amazement. Today, it is likely to elicit a far more subdued response. Over the past few years, we have grown accustomed to reading about the “miracles” of modern science. The expanding use of new reproductive technologies, genetic …
Fieldwork Revisited
The power of potential
Despite their low and inconsistent rates of success, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are presented by fertility clinics and constructed in media and popular culture as an effective treatment for infertility. The ways in which such technologies medicalize women's health and bodies have been well documented by social scientists and feminist health researchers. However, little is known about the struggles women face in cases of "failure"; …
Preliminary Statement for 1996 Special Issue, Fieldwork Revisited
Beyond the Global
In this article, I reflect upon the meaning of the "global" in contemporary debates concerning the nature of cross‐cultural dialogues. I argue that the "global" is made up of competing dialogues, positions, and meanings that are themselves often set in opposition to one another. Drawing upon my own research among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea, I discuss how the existence of competing perspectives in contemporary fieldwork situations complicates o…
To eat for another
Meyer Fortes once wrote about the privileged place that food taboos occupy in the discipline of anthropology. Eating, he argued, is a uniquely individual act in that each person must eat for her or himself – it is not an activity that one person can undertake for another (also quoted in M. Strathern 1988:20). Furthermore, eating is both “organic” and “social”: “it is a means by which we are not merely made aware of an external reality but take pe…
Fieldwork Revisited
Times Enmeshed
On Being 'Natural' in the Rainforest Marketplace
A recent article in the popular journal Scientific American begins with the claim that scientists have succeeded in “cracking the code of life.” Two decades ago, such an announcement would have been met with wonder and amazement. Today, it is likely to elicit a far more subdued response. Over the past few years, we have grown accustomed to reading about the “miracles” of modern science. The expanding use of new reproductive technologies, genetic …
Conceiving relatedness
This article considers the implications of imagining kinship as a non-embodied relation. In recent years, it has become commonplace to argue that relatedness is a gradually acquired state that can be built over time and by non-sexual means. In this view, relationships of consanguinity are not given at birth but are created through purposeful acts of feeding and caring. Here, I address a question that has been less commonly asked by anthropologist…
Kinship and Beyond
Kinship and Beyond
The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled “kinship.” The detailed ethnographic work and analysis included in this text explores how these assumptions …
Exchanging skin
The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
Presenting twenty-nine original chapters - each written by an expert in the field – this Handbook examines the history of kinship theory and the directions in which it has moved over the past few years. Using examples from across the globe (Africa, India, South America, Malaysia, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North America), this Handbook highlights the power of kinship theory to address questions of broad anthropological significance. How have r…
Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
The power of potential
Despite their low and inconsistent rates of success, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are presented by fertility clinics and constructed in media and popular culture as an effective treatment for infertility. The ways in which such technologies medicalize women's health and bodies have been well documented by social scientists and feminist health researchers. However, little is known about the struggles women face in cases of "failure"; …
Chapter 6 ‘Family Trees’ Among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea
Difficult Attachments
Sociology (11 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Genealogy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Kinship (4 works)