ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Relativism, Franz Boas, Tacit Knowledge
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The highest export of the philippines is service workers, the migration of nannies and house help not only in the west but in other parts of the world. The money that comes in generates enough income to balance the economy in now that the politics of nationalization is based around our people being good workers. There is a status attached to migratory movement. Kinship practices are broken from their family ties but remade at the place of work. Geometrical way of looking at kinship is the family tree, ability to trace our roots back to our ancestors. This genealogy is how people look at kinship. But you can also think of kinship through ideas of relatedness. One can have a father and mother that one is biologically related to as well as step father or mother or siblings that one shares relatedness with but are not blood-related.
