ANTA02H3 Lecture 5: Lecture Five.doc
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Procreation as symbolic and paternity as cultural construct. Depending on the type of economy, kinship shapes kinship relation from marriage, child rearing, political aspect. In smaller scale society ones kinship category takes care of everything, what u will do for a living, who you will marry, gives u protection, it gives u ur identity. Social organization is kinship organization in some groups. In large scale societies kinship is there but other social things like religious institutions, political groups, group ppl together. Early studies were based on who was related to whom. We say blood relations are the most important. In some societies ppl u are related to blood are the ones u fight with. What is expected of u based on ur kinship relation is part of kinship classification. A slash through anything means that it is over, like divorced or dead. A square means u don"t know the gender of the person or for the ego.
