AN202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Assimilation, Matrilocal Residence, Reductionism
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How are politics, gender and kinship related? o katherine bowie. Demonstrated that it is impossible to understand local (electoral) politics without understanding local kinship and lineage practices: ex. Because of how kinship system works (women stay local, husbands marry into villages), it is the lineages that govern economic exchanged. Role of kinship: hereditary leadership = ascribed. Common in rank and state societies monarchies: rules of succession visually identifiable, tattoos (polynesia, dress (crowns, other symbols of state items are passed down, versus achieved status/leadership. How are immigration and politics related? o new europe as case study. Many implications of immigration including globalization: negotiation identity. Different countries view immigration differently: umberto melotti. Germany= institutionalized of precariousness (8) social relationships: marriage, family, kinship and friendship. The cross-cultural comparison imperative o what"s natural , what"s cultural? o comparison serves to. Understand ourselves better o reductionism (over-) simplifications o comparisons.
