ANT 2103 Lecture 1: January 18
13 Feb 2017
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Unsettling kinship: part ii: anthropologists know many other ways to tie things that are not just biological and through marriage and we can think about social constructions. Ancestry dna ad = notice the ways in which particular advertisements talk about blood ties in an engaging way. Digitizing census by seeing if you"re related to someone famous and has really interesting ties by accessing government files. Idea of ancestry dna: use saliva to tell you stories about your descent and to tie you to other people that you might be biologically related to. Create these ads and producing what counts as difference of nature. Weston"s idea: decentering of biology and foregrounding of choice. Contrast with lewin"s: motherhood reasserts the importance of biology, and supersedes the. Centrality of motherhood in america, what it means to be a woman, motherhood supersedes = most prominent feature. And how this process: how is this symbol. Biology doesn"t go away; it gets configured.
