AN341 Lecture Notes - Assisted Reproductive Technology, Patrilineality, Kinship
Document Summary
How do individuals in different positions respond to kin rules and norms: bedouin women had the power to challenge the patrilineal rules. Kinship as rules" and as process" involves, negotiation, bargaining, living to norms, breaking rules. Theoretical orientations- descent and alliance theories; constructing general theories. Comparative study of kin systems" and terminologies. Structure and function of kinship groups and their reproduction. What do their narratives tell us about women and men experience gender: focus on women narratives can tell us about individual experiences about gender but it does not tell us about gender entirely, no conclusions. Birth- sexual reproduction: filiation (relationship between parent and child) and consanguinity, blood relations, siblings. Replacement marriage (alliance and affinity) adoption. Relations with other families/ kin affinity, alliance. Exogamy (ccm) and endogamy (pcm: if you keep marring inside you no longer make connection with the outside world. Kinship kin and affines (blood and marriage) Transcending natural facts to create social ties.
