ANP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nuclear Family, Menarche, Incest
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Detachable nuclear family units: independence and mobility. Structural variables in kinship: china"s one-child policy and transnational adoptions. Blended families, single-parents, childless couples, same-sex marriages: chosen family. Tarawads : residential complexes headed up by a senior woman. Marriage is a formality: men reform to their mother"s tarawad a few days after marriage. Defined by biological, psychological and social components(all changing) Definitions and experiences vary according to class, ethnicity, gender and historical period. Rite of passage: a ritual performed to mark the transition from one life stage to the next. Childhood is heterogeneous - w/in and across cltrs. Lacey(2015) the length of childhood and the substages vary cross-cltrally. Obj: western ideas/generalization don"t represent all societies[weird] Children = innocence product of weird, diff ways kids are treated. Looking at other anthroists" work, comparative and inductive(ethnology - not own ethnography) Ethnography: a detailed account of a particular group, community, society or cltr.
