Concepts of Family, Kin, and Gender Relations Through the Prism of Traditional Family Language Arts

S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice

“…Much like ideologies of individuated personhood, such assertions are based on a stereotypical‐traditional ‘doxic’ family unit which does not reflect the complexity and fluidity of contemporary kinship (Finch, 2007). However, the ongoing significance of kinship and family is evident, for example, in the ways in which we are constituted relationally through elements such as naming (Elias, 1991; Finch, 2008), inheritable traits (physical or otherwise, see Razumova, 2000), and an enduring interest in ancestry not to mention everyday kin‐based practices more broadly. Through such tangible associations, individual persons may be seen as irreducibly formed in and informed by kin relations and the myriad acts of reciprocity that define these.…”