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Ethnologisches Seminar, Münsterplatz 19, 4051 Basel
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Fachbereich Ethnologie
Bettina Beer: "The Reconfiguration of Kin Networks through Separation and Estrangement"
Intimate relationships form part of the continuum of social commitment that has gained attention in New Kinship Studies (NKS), focusing on the interactions that create and sustain them, thereby emphasising relatedness through interaction rather than procreative connections. While NKS has focused on the creation and maintenance of intimate relations, the presented research explores interactions that result in the transformation or termination of such relations, on what we take to be the reasonable assumption that the anthropology of kinship needs to take account of both the procreative relations between people and the sociological trajectories that can sustain or erode intimate relations. The researchers are conducting three empirical studies: estrangement between parents and adult children in Switzerland, marriage dissolution in the Philippines, and bureaucratic separation of parents and their children in Russia.
Bettina Beer received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Hamburg, in 1995, with a dissertation titled "German-Philippine Marriages. Interethnic marriages and the migration of Women". She habilitated in 2001 with a project on "Body concepts, interethnic relations and theories of racism".
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