The Shared History

Unknotting Fictive Kinship and Legal Process

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ID4083966
AuthorsMarie Andrée Jacob (0000-0001-6975-3156, Keele University, corresponding author), Marie-Andree Jacob
Year2009
Volume43
Issue1
Pages95-126
Publication date2009-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLaw & Society Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-5893.2009.00368.x
OpenAlexW1997633733
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited56

This article looks in detail at a form of kinship that is contingently crafted and mobilized to achieve specific purposes. On the basis of ethnographic material collected among local actors within bodies that regulate kidney transplants in Israel, the objective of this article is to expand the sociolegal definition of fictive kinship. I usetransplant relatednessto refer to the set of formal and informal norms that grow out of social and medico-legal practices in the field of kidney donations and sales; however, the form of fictive kinship that appears in this specific field tells us something broader about kinship as it is constructed and performed in legal processes more generally. The configuration of fictive kinship that is examined is the shared history (historia meshoutefet). I argue that in the present case, the shared history alters social and legal deep-seated understandings of kinship and ultimately makes the distinctions between allegedly real and pseudo-kinship collapse

Fictive kinship · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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