ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eskimo Kinship, Iroquois, Patrilocal Residence
7 Feb 2017
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What are the rules of proper and ethical conduct when working in a community. How should the rules go in your opinion. Public anthropology: engaging a wider public outside the classroom. Pigs are not part of the pastoral community. Redistribution- based on investment scheme (community effort) Pigs are not eaten, not economic in material sense (economic in social sense) Pigs are getting ahead, not what you need. Kinship: relationships between people as defined by: blood, marriage. *adoptive relationships is the same as blood relationships* Knowledge that insiders (people in a family) to be able to do two things: recognize relatives, how to act around them. Drawings that sketch out how people are related to eachother. Focus or emphasis on roles - identified through labels like father or sister. Implying something about behaviour (interaction with one another) Kinship charts are ego oriented (surrounding one person) Stable, identifiable, visible social groups within cultures.
