AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kinship, Stateless Society, Surrogacy
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Kin groups- extended family, descent groups i. e. lineages, clans. Non-kin groups: friendship, trade partners, common-interest groups (sodalities), age grades and age set; secret societies etc. Organizing principle of many (formerly) stateless societies kin based societies. Foundation of social structural arrangements typologies, classifications. The traditional focus was the genealogical grid" the universe of genealogical relatives and the patterns found based on genealogies (descent) Focus today is on kinship in practice", kin work, reconfiguration of kinship based on new forms of relatedness, gender inequalities in kinship. Transnational kinship extension of ties across national borders. Mating (sex), birth (shared blood), nurturance (permanent (adoption) or temporary (fostering)) Blood may not make kinship illegitimate child. Imposition of culture" on biological facts relatedness may be modeled by biology but may not be biological adoption, fictive kin, affines (may not be biologically connected but still considered kin), foster parents, surrogacy etc. As idiom for other ties (fictive kin) god parents (compadazgo co-parents or ritual parents in.
