FAMILY AND KINSHIP STUDIES LAB |
Telephone: 22510 - 36314
The Lab of Family and Kinship
Studies was established in 2000 in order to cover research and teaching
needs related to the study of family and kinship in Greece and other
countries from an anthropological and/or historical perspective. Lab's
research interests include:
a) structures of kinship,
b) genealogical research,
c) family, reproduction and
health,
d) family, social exclusion and
migration,
e) anthropology of childhood,
f) collection of data on family
and kinship research in Greece,
g) shifting meanings of kinship
and parenthood in the age of assisted reproduction,
h) new forms of family (single
parents, same-sex families, adoptive children, surrogate mothers),
i) kinship, science and
technology (genetics, inheritance),
j) sexuality, gender and
reproduction.
The Lab has provided the
context for the realization of numerous research projects, grad research
and doctoral theses. Some of these projects and doctoral theses have
been funded by the EU, primarily in the context of Heraclitus Program
for doctoral research, and by the Research Unit, University of the
Aegean. The topics of recent grad and doctoral research cover:
a) motherhood in prison,
b) new genetics and concepts of
illness and kinship (thalassemia),
c) childhood friendships
d) birth, technology and the
human body,
e) families of political
refugees, violence and medical treatment,
f) sexuality and citizenship,
g) family, household and
sexuality.
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