{"id":2000,"date":"2022-09-14T02:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2022-09-14T02:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:38:25","slug":"2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/14\/2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic 1 development: Kinship | Grafting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Kinship<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>1. Anthropological: Study Socialization of human<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Affinity \/ Consanguinity ; Family \/ marriage; Fictive kinship<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Entity (border definition): cultural \/ Ontological origin \/ historical \/ social connections and shared characteristics (same-sex parenting \/ religious \/ godparents )<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Biology: Coefficient relationship\/consanguinity or genealogy.<br \/>\n\u201cconsanguinity basis for kinship ties is not universal across cultures<span class=\"s1\">\uff0c <\/span>it may be a culturally specific symbol of kinship only in particular cultures\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">2. <b>Kinship across species\/ Primates<br \/>\n<\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b><i>domestication<\/i><\/b><\/span> &amp; loving kinship with other species<br \/>\nanthropocentric, anthropomorphic perspective of kinships<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Human exceptionalism: \u201cWhat we see in other species, then, becomes a reflection not of their own ways of being in the world per se, but rather a claim to human exceptionalism.\u201d (Riggs, Damien W., and Elizabeth Peel. <i>Critical Kinship Studies: An Introduction to the Field<\/i>, 2016.<i>\u00a0<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">3. <b>Post-humanist kinship<\/b> VS western human kinship<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><b>Grafting <\/b><\/span>(Science and technology)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">Definition by Wikipedia, \u201cgraft\u201d or \u201cgrafting\u201d may refer to definitions within different contexts. The word may refer to 1. a form of political corruption 2. clinical term of a surgical procedure 3. A process to improve decision trees commonly used in computer science 4. A horticultural technique, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My research is mainly oriented toward its definition&#8217;s horticultural and botanical side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Board aspect: Grafting (inosculation) is the joining of plant tissues<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">&#8211; Tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together.<\/p>\n<p><b>Natural &amp; Artificial<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><i>natural grafting<\/i>: roots\/branches of the same species will sometimes naturally graft<br \/>\nAdvantageous: fire resistance \/ regeneration \/ protect from wind damages<br \/>\nProblems: plant parasitism\/transmission of pathogens<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><i>artificial grafting<br \/>\n<\/i>Advantageous: disease-resistant \/ <span class=\"s2\"><i>domesticate<\/i><\/span> plants<br \/>\ncommonly used in asexual propagation of commercially grown plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Graft chimera<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cSuch a plant can produce flowers and foliage of both plants as well as shoots intermediate between the two.\u201d (<span class=\"s5\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%2BLaburnocytisus_%27Adamii%27\"><span class=\"s6\">+Laburnocytisus\u00a0&#8216;Adamii&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/span>)<br \/>\n&#8211; Grafting can potentially make a <i>new species<\/i>, a form of natural <i>genetic engineering<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s2\"><b>domestication<\/b><\/span><\/em><b> of plants<\/b><br \/>\nTo achieve desired quality (long-live, harvest, etc )<\/p>\n<p>(Some of the examples that I found from Wikipedia)<br \/>\n\u201cBy 500 BCE grafting was well established and practiced in the region as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mishna\"><span class=\"s7\">Mishna<\/span><\/a>\u00a0describes grafting as a commonplace technique used to grow grapevines.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grafting#cite_note-history_grafting-24\"><span class=\"s8\"><sup>[24]<\/sup><\/span><\/a>\u201d &#8211; Fertile Crescent history<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidence for grafting in China is found in Jia Sixie&#8217;s 6th century CE agricultural treatise <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qimin_Yaoshu\"><span class=\"s7\"><i>Qimin Yaoshu<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u201d &#8211; China 2000 BC<\/p>\n<p>\u201cinflux of foreign ornamentals to decorate these gardens, grafting was used much during this period.\u201d &#8211; Arabic regions<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrench Wine Pandemic\u201d, a grafting history of American and French grapevine<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\">progress<\/h2>\n<p>Going into branches of these two keywords, I found the concept of &#8220;domestication&#8221; appears in both and may further lead the research.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Domestication of animals&#8221; and building kinship with other species<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Domestication of plants&#8221; to achieve better qualities for human usage<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinship 1. Anthropological: Study Socialization of human\u00a0 Affinity \/ Consanguinity ; Family \/ marriage; Fictive kinship Entity (border definition): cultural \/ Ontological origin \/ historical \/ social connections and shared characteristics (same-sex parenting \/ religious \/ godparents ) Biology: Coefficient relationship\/consanguinity or genealogy. \u201cconsanguinity basis for kinship ties is not universal across cultures\uff0c it may&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/14\/2000\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Topic 1 development: Kinship | Grafting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}