ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Liminality, Marcel Mauss, Trobriand Islands
14 Feb 2017
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Gender, sexual identities, race, ethnicity, age, class. I. e. celebrations (baby shower; times of socialization), ultra sounds (meet the fetus during the first ultra sound; can personify fetus oh look he/she looks healthy and are given pictures to take home of the blobs) I. e. blood is thicker than water implies the idea that if you share a biological/genetic relationship with someone then you will have a special bond with them and will surpass non-genetic bonds (i. e. friendships) January 19th & 23rd, 2017 thinking about identities. A means of group affiliations; what group you belong to is a form of identity. Activities we partake in are dependent on our identities. How we define ourselves, individually, as well as other groups of people. Naturalizing discourses = a way of thinking and talking about something; like an ideology. We naturalize our familial identities we assume that shared genes/"blood" automatically means that this leads to shared social bonds.
