ANTH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consanguinity, Ethnography, Enculturation
15 Jul 2016
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Participant-observation also changes the researcher and how they see things. The ethnographer and the culture they visit are mutually dependent variables. The universal human condition (our ability to learn and adapt) is a. Learning to be like other people, to see things in the way they do, helps ethnographers and their informants to challenge ethnocentrism and rethink how we see the world. The most basic thing all humans need is nurturance: we need care and cultural knowledge to enable us to grow into self-sufficient adults. Family is a term for the most basic social unit of nurturance, but families come in many shapes and sizes. There are many ways of having a family. Family relationships or kinship often come from three sources. Affinity: affinal relationship come from marriage, spouses, in-laws. Consanguinity: consanguineal relationships come from descent from a common ancestor grandparents, parents, siblings, children. Adoption: adopted relationships come from nurturing someone who may not be related by blood or marriage.
