ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Milk Kinship, Emic And Etic, Unilineality
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Rituals that mark the transition from one life stage to another. Transition/liminality (communitas) > neither one thing or the other >cadet. Integration >reintroduced into the word in your new social status (getting married) Kinship functions as a mode of production (how your going to make your livelihood), ideologies (how you will raise your children), and reproduction (who you will marry) Euro-american societies hold blood kinship in high regard. In contrast, certain societies only count one side of your parentage as kin (e. g. patriarchal) Ego: point of reference. classification is relative to ego (sister vs. mother) * can compound terms to accurately represent what a person is called (e. g. mozda) Vary depending on organization within society as it reflects the way classification system mirrors social importance. Eskimo kinship terms: father, mother, brother, sister, everyone else does not have unique names. Each side is of equal significance, equally related to either side in theory.
