CAS AN 101 Lecture Notes - Consanguinity, Nuclear Family, Endogamy
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We put down the kin terms that we recognize in our culture. Many people that you put down with the same term have different genealogical relationships with you. Kinship calculation the system by which people reckon their kin in any given society. Divide people into categories of kin and define marriageability in terms of these. Respond to biological, psychological, social, and legal pressures. Kinship systems are marriage deal with basic facts of birth and sex and death. The study of kinship is the study of what different societies do with these things. Kinship is to anthropology as logic is to philosophy. American anthro became less interested in kinship in the 1970s. Consanguinity: people who are related to you by blood. Affine: someone related to you through the addition of marriage. Vocab that we use around kinship came from legal scholars. In-laws: related in the eyes of the state.