ANTA02H3 Lecture : Class 4-even though it says 5
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Question of biology, blood, and belonging ii: relatives and relations. What is the authors main point, understand how the article is put together in terms of evidence and proof. Procreation as symbolic and paternity as cultural construct. We see images that are not representative of the correct type of culture. Discourses of gender and needing to protect muslim women from their culture. We use the idea of blood ties to use for the definition of kin. It is a metaphor that we live by in north america and the way we think but its not. Organizes people into coherent and meaningful groups it works kinda like gender and age to categorize people. Marital status: allows you see who you are meant to marry. How you are meant to interact with people. Early anthropologists talked about small scale societies and were obsessed with understanding kinship because it helps you understand social behavior.
