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 ANTH 2654: Forms of Families
-August 7, 2014
+August 6, 2015
 Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/2
-## "Bastard algebra" ##
+## Alternative classrooms ##
-Malinowski
+{{:blackburn.jpg|Blackburn Lecture Theatre}}
-## Two ideas, two perspectives ##
+## A new kind of lecture ##
-**Malinowski**: Kinship systems are different ways of satisfying the same need for family connection and nurture of children. If different relatives are called by the same term, this is because the prinary term has been extended to apply to a more distant relative, e.g. Kiriwina //sina//: mother and mother's sister.
+The "flipped lecture": https://cit.duke.edu/get-ideas/teaching-strategies/flipping-the-classroom/
-We have to examine kinship from the bottom-up, in terms of the real, practical (and emotional) circumstances of its experience. Discover "the native's point of view" (Malinowski 1932 [1922]: 25)!
+Why do people want to do this?
-**Morgan**: Kinship systems are derived from the kinds of property that people can own. More generally, kinship is a way for a group to organize its members into different groups.
+What do you think this would be like as a student?
-We should approach kinship systems as total systems. Societies with classificatory systems of terminology tend to based on the //gens//. Kinship is society!
+How does this work in anthropology?
-## Two more perspectives ##
-There is a common core to all kinship systems, based on universal traits. These can be innate, inherited qualities, or they could be universal requirements of group membership.
+## Kinship live ##
-There are no necessary elements in a kinship system. Each one is unique and specific to the culture in which one finds it.
+http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/
-## Some more terms ##
+http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/
+http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/2006/
+http://www.sbs.com.au/programs/who-do-you-think-you-are/episode-5/dawn-fraser
+What makes these TV shows popular? What do audiences see in them?
+## Kinship as a classification system ##
+Henry Maine: status, contract
+Lewis Henry Morgan: gens, state.
+W. H. R. Rivers: The genealogical method, an inventory of social statuses.
+## "Bastard algebra" ##
+Bronislaw Malinowski, founder of "fieldwork," believed that British social anthropology was obsessed with kinship as a structure of society.
+In a 1930 paper in the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (then called //Man//), he wrote:
+> [I have my doubts] whether the effort needed to master the bastard algebra of kinship is really worth while. [...]
+> After all, kinship is a matter of flesh and blood, the result of sexual passion and maternal affection, of long
+> intimate daily life, and of a host of personal intimate interests. Can all this really be reduced to formulas
+> symbols, perhaps equations? (1930: 19)
+Anthropology aspires to become a mathematics of society. Should it?
+## Key terms ##
+**Consanguineous**: Related by blood.
+**Affinal**: Related by marriage, equivalent to English 'in-law'.
 **Filiation**: The relationship of a parent to a child and the social roles and obligations attached to these social statuses.
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-## Why have fathers? ##
-Well?
+## Two ideas, two perspectives ##
+**Malinowski**: Kinship systems are different ways of satisfying the same need for family connection and nurture of children. If different relatives are called by the same term, this is because the prinary term has been extended to apply to a more distant relative, e.g. Kiriwina //ina//: mother and mother's sister.
+We have to examine kinship from the bottom-up, in terms of the real, practical (and emotional) circumstances of its experience. Discover "the native's point of view" (Malinowski 1932 [1922]: 25)!
+**Morgan**: Kinship systems are derived from the kinds of property that people can own. More generally, kinship is a way for a group to organize its members into different groups.
+We should approach kinship systems as total systems. Societies with classificatory systems of terminology tend to based on the //gens//. Kinship is society!
+## The axiom of amity ##
+**Meyer Fortes**:
+> Kinship concepts, institutions, and relations classify, identify, and categorize persons and groups. ... [T]his is associated with rules of conduct whose efficacy comes, in the last resort, from a general principle of kinship morality that is rooted in the familial domain and is assumed everywhere to be axiomatically binding. This is the rule of prescriptive altruism which I have referred to as the principle of kinship amity and which Hiatt calls the ethic of generosity. (Fortes 2004 [1969]: 231-232)
+## Postscript ##
+This is the region where Susana de Matos Viegas carried out field research in Bahia, Brazil: https://goo.gl/maps/QjZ5s
 ## References ##
+Fortes, Meyer. 2004 [1969]. Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan. London: Routledge.
+Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1930. “17. Kinship.” Man 30: 19–29. doi:10.2307/2789869.
 Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1932 [1922]. Argonauts of The Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. http://archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp.