ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Consanguinity, Eurocentrism, Achieved Status
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The study of kin - the people we consider relatives. Diagram of people related to one another through reproductive sexual intercourse (blood) Focus on ego as an individual and his/her own family. Identities of people not conceptualized in terms of biological distance- free from biology and genealogy. Generation, social group, seniority, etc. play ,meaningful roles in public affairs. Actually means male belonging to previous generation in same social group . Actually means woman belonging to same generation in different social group; can be potential wife . Studying kinship and gender we become aware of eurocentrism. The tendency to practice and interpret non western cultures from a european/ western perspective. Western point of reference at the expense of other cultures. Fails to spot how european/western ideas about kinship and gender are culturally produced. Network of related persons, whose kinship identities also defined by positions in other cultural domains. Blood relation, age/generation, gender roles, space, work,
