Steeped in Blood

Steeped in Blood PDF

Author: Frances J. Latchford

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0773558004

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What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances Latchford questions the idea that knowing one's bio-genealogy is integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging. Upending our established values and beliefs about what makes a family, Steeped in Blood examines the social and political devaluation of adoptive ties. It takes readers on an intellectual journey through accepted wisdom about adoption, twins, kinship, and incest, and challenges our naturalistic and individualistic assumptions about identity and the biological ties that bind us, sometimes violently, to our families. Latchford exposes how our desire for bio-genealogical knowledge, understood as it is by family and adoption experts, pathologizes adoptees by posing the biological tie as a necessary condition for normal identity formation. Rejecting the idea that a love of the self-same is fundamental to family bonds, her book is a reaction to the wounds families suffer whenever they dare to revel in their difference. A rejoinder to rhetoric that defines adoptees, adoptive kin, and their family intimacies as inferior and inauthentic, Steeped in Blood's view through the lens of critical adoption studies decentres our cultural obsession with the biological family imaginary and makes real the possibility of being family in the absence of blood.

Practical Carp Culture

Practical Carp Culture PDF

Author: L. B. Logan

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780469101739

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The German Carp in the United States (Classic Reprint)

The German Carp in the United States (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Leon J. Cole

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-10

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780656226993

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Excerpt from The German Carp in the United States In 1902 it was not practicable to be0'1n the field work until after the lst of July. As before. Lake St. Clair was first Visited, but the con ditions there being unfavorable on account of heavy storms, which made the water roily, investigations were renewed on Lake Erie, especially at Port Clinton and at Sandusky. During the last season of the investigations, in the summer of 1903, with headquarters in Sandusky, the work was conducted for about three weeks, during the spawning season of the carp, most of the time from a camp in the marsh, some 20 miles above the city, near where the Sandusky River Opens into the large bay of the same name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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