ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Zoological Society Of London, Nuclear Family
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Anthro lecture 10 or 11 first lecture after midterm 1: kinship: intro, kinship: a central component of social organization; the beliefs that concern how people construct family. People who we have a very special relationship with. Ii) kinship categories and notation: kinship and cultural diversity. We assume that the way we do things is the natural way. Example continued: but all of mother"s sisters are called chitnag , and all of your father"s sisters are called chitnag too, and your female cousins are called. These are not equivalent according the diversity factor in culture. Is there anything we can do to keep things constant: kin terms: words used in a particular language used by people, which differs by cultural context, biological kin types: actual genealogical relationships; the anthropologists. Thought that biological ties between people can be kept constant among different people of different cultures. Mzs, mzd, mbs, mbd, fzs, fzd, fbs, fbd.
