ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Azawagh, Fetus, Milk Kinship
29 Mar 2018
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Procreation as symbolic and paternity as cultural construct. Rituals that mark the transition form one life stage to another. 3 stages: separation transition/liminality (communitas) integration in feeding desire: girl womanhood isn"t a rites of passage. Kinship symbols (basic symbols we need to know as anthropologists) put these together to make a kindship diagram. Divorce: death: / through circle/triangle ( ) colours aren"t significant every kinship diagram has to have an ego (starting point for the diagram), person whom we gather the information from. Emic: insider"s perspective (their special label for that person) in order to do this, need kinship diagram + etic label etic kinship terms: fa = father. Da = daughter z = sister s = son. Eskimo** kinship classification don"t use the word eskimo anymore, use inuit. The word eskimo is degrading, derogatory to the inuit people. Patunilineal (related to father side in a certain way where the father side has a special claim on them)
