SOSA 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Grammatical Gender, Performativity, Consanguinity

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sociol & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1002
• Professor: Brian Noble

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*first 15 minutes; talking about new winter course sosa 3183-dinosaurs, why we care. Public cultures of kinship & socio natural identity. Kinship: blood relationship/ a sharing of characteristics or origin. Bn definition- basic principles of organizing individuals into social groups, roles and categories, based on parentage and marriage. Marriage: the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship. Bn definition - an alliance between two kin groups, achieved by ceremonial union of two people, one from each kin group. Bn definition - the legal or socially recognized union of two people to live together and often have children. Sex: either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions. Gender: the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to. Performativity: language which affects change in the world and functions as a.