ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Exogamy, Incest, Consanguinity

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

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Relatedness: kinship, marriage, descent, residence, commensality, friendship, family is the corner stone that has built every imagined community. Imagined community metaphorically speak of each other like a family: (cid:862)our ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) (cid:271)rothers a(cid:374)d sisters(cid:863), commensality you eat together, sharing a table. When you eat with people, it is a relationship: having a relationship, imagined community is practiced, friendship is also a form of imagined community. Foreign accents: people believe that those with foreign accents are not actually canadian. They are discriminated by their background: biological aspect, foreign accents always appear in the speech of people learning a language after a critical maturation period. I(cid:374) this, it is i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t (cid:449)hether relati(cid:448)es are o(cid:374) (cid:373)other or fathers(cid:859) side: eskimo kinships: here you have one mother or father. A male sibling of mother/father is an uncle and woman sibling of mother/father is an aunt. Incest but not quite: alludes to the interrelations of consanguineal and affinial kinship, and the flexibility of kinship in general.