ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Hey Ladies, Kinship Terminology, Natalie Suleman
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Why anthropologists stopped drawing kinship charts (and then started up again) Systems on how ppl are related to each other (family/extended family) Starting principle: human experiences like sexuality, conception, birth and nurturance are selectively interpreted and shaped in shared cultural practices that ant called relatedness (umbrella term) Early focus on shared substances that define kinship. -these shared substances could be dna, semen, breast milk. -more societies ww believe that those who share substances are related in systematic ways. Assumptom: that all societies reckon kinship based on biology (reduction) -early idea: just look at bio to understand it. -some people say intercourse is part of kinship = sperm swimming to egg (where birth is created) -thought, everyone thought of reproduction the same way (women/man, sex/sperm/egg) Two big realizations: often ppl"s own understandings of their relatedness are at odds with genealogical connections we westerners might consider important or true, western ideas of genealogical relationships are deeply cultural as well.
