ANTH 103 Lecture 19: ANTH LECTURE 19th CENTRUY STUDY OF KINSHIPS

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 103
• Professor: Govindrajan

Document Summary

Argued that this system is not universal: as folk categories, these are symbolic, and should be treated as cultural constructs, these models are not natural, blood is thicker than water reflects euro american thinking on kinship and is inapplicable to other societies, studies of kinship and culture from 1960s, what does kinship really mean to people, an emphasis on practice (what people do) and process (and how they do over time, an emphasis on looking at kinship in globalizing societies, examines the fluid, gender and kinship margery wold, wolf, uterine families, woman"s experience of kinship and family is very different from men"s, uterine families.