ANTH 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kinship Terminology, Patrilineality, Bride Service
21 Nov 2017
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Kinship: the cultural system of meaning to determine family relatedness, mutual expectations, responsibilities and rights. Anthropologists who study kinship are interested in things like: cultural practices and beliefs around family composition, descent and marriage, how kinship functions as a basic social institution that we use to identify meaningful relationships and organize societies. The degree to which natural substance is shared is measurable. Can be terminated with no persisting connectios. People are relate by legal relationship alone. There is a code of conduct for appropriate behaviour between relatives related in this way. Fictive kin describes people we consider kin who are not related though natural or legal ties. Blood : a metaphor for kinship corss-cultural research demonstrates that genetic connection is not the same as kinship. 2014: 132, 122) other biological metaphors for making kinship stacy lockerbie studied international adoption from china by canadian women.
