Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Trobriand Islands, Surrogacy, Consanguinity
19 Nov 2013
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What makes us as individuals in relation to others. For monday: for exam: real all chapters 1-6 and pages 266-270 on chapter 7 (paul farmer) Movie on monday: take notes, its on exam. Focuses on classic case studies of patterns of families, and how we can use these in comparison with one another to understand the way humans relate to one another as family/kin. These studies are well used in the study of other people (chinese farmers, We"re trying to make sense of the way other people organize their families, the assumption being we organize ourselves normally". Thought that we have evolved the most, so we"re the correct one. We view kinships as the biological way we are related. Schinieder: upset with this approach, upset at the way. Patterns of family relations in the united states, he applied this method to the united states instead of trobriand islanders and so on.
