ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kanji, Animal Husbandry

• School: Cal Poly Pomona
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 102
• Professor: Garcia

Document Summary

#17 mccurdy, david, family and kinship in village india, in conformity and conflict pp. The author talks with three gameti men in the village of ratakote located in sothern. When sitting down with these men they talk about recent national elections, worries over recent cattle diseases, predictions about the rain starting, and the importance of kin in their village. Kinship was the main topic of their conversation. In the u. s. kin is different for us since we not only focus on our family but we also focus on kin"s in our work, with friends, schools, neighborhoods, and churches. In the ratakote"s society it is much different than ours since their village is kin-centered. Villagers just focus on their families spending energy creating and keeping their kinships. These kinship systems work well in agrarian societies where families tend to corporate units and where their horizons are limited to the distance they can walk in a day.