Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nuclear Family, Pastoralism, Senussi
2 Dec 2016
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Quiz not yet ready comments, however. How to use the readings reading across the texts. Some examples: connecting barker to monaghan & just, and vice-versa. Even when you see something new its new in a familiar way, nothing surprises. Average kinship system is described as an eskimo system, very similar to an inuit system. Focuses on nuclear family, different set of terms for all the people who fit into a family, which is different from other relatives. Tend not to find this in tribal societies. Isolates nuclear family, don"t differentiate by line(mother or father side) unusual pattern. Lots of variation, but it"s patterned and not random (comparative scope) anthropologists anymore when it comes to kinships. Anthropologists ask: foragers, tribes-tend to be larger 300-1500 people in a settlement , chiefdoms, and states ( and peasants) and characteristic forms. Inherit names from people who have died in the past. Anyone that feels a connection to the family is welcome.
