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Jeanette Edwards

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Jeanette Edwards
Born(1954-08-29)29 August 1954
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
🏫 EducationUniversity of Manchester
💼 Occupation
Known forAnthropology of Britain, kinship, biotechnology

Jeanette Edwards is a British social anthropologist who specialises in kinship, biotechnology, and the body. She is interested in the ethnography of Britain and has worked on issues of identity, belonging and social class. She is currently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.[1]

Selected Publications[edit]

  • 2000. Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[2]
  • 2007. Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice. Edited with Penny Harvey and Peter Wade. Oxford: Berg.[3]
  • 2009. European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology. Edited with Carles Salazar. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books.[4]
  • 2010. Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies. Edited with Penny Harvey and Peter Wade. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books.[5]
  • 2011. Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science. Edited with Maja Petrović-Šteger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[6]
  • 2017. Brexit, Trump and Anthropology: Forum. American Ethnologist 44 (2). Edited with Angelique Haugerud and Shanti Parikh.[7]
  • 2017. The politics of 'see-through' kinship. In Reconnecting Kinship and Politics: temporalities, scales, classifications. Pennsylvania University Press.[8]

References[edit]

  1. "Prof Jeanette Edwards | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  2. Edwards, Jeanette (2000). Born and bred : idioms of kinship and new reproductive technologies in England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198233949. OCLC 42745580. Search this book on
  3. Edwards, Jeanette; Harvey, Penelope and Wade, Peter (2007). Anthropology and science : epistemologies in practice. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1845205003. OCLC 74525364.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
  4. Edwards, Jeanette & Salazar, Carles (2009). European kinship in the age of biotechnology. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-8454-55736. OCLC 225874694.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
  5. Edwards, Jeanette (2010). Technologized images, technologized bodies. Harvey, Penelope; Wade, Peter. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-8454-56641. OCLC 426817288. Search this book on
  6. Edwards, Jeanette with Petrović-Šteger, Maja (2011). Recasting anthropological knowledge : inspiration and social science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-1070-09684. OCLC 727047879.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
  7. "Brexit, Trump, and Anthropology: Forum | American Ethnological Society". AmericanEthnologist.org. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  8. Thelen, Tatjana with Alber Erdmute. Reconnecting state and kinship. Philadelphia, PA. pp. 155–177. ISBN 978-0-8122-49514. OCLC 980539830. Search this book on


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