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 Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/1 Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/1
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 +## Who do you think you are? ##
 +
 +http://www.sbs.com.au/programs/who-do-you-think-you-are
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 +## Faces of America ##
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 +* http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/
 +* http://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/
  
 ## Recap ## ## Recap ##
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 Many ideas about kinship in anthropology trace back to the work of Many ideas about kinship in anthropology trace back to the work of
-**Lewis Henry Morgan**. Morgan gives the first justification for+**[[:Lewis Henry Morgan]]**. Morgan gives the first justification for
 studying kinship as a system of a society.  studying kinship as a system of a society. 
  
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 For Morgan, kinship is a "system of consanguinity and affinity." For Morgan, kinship is a "system of consanguinity and affinity."
  
-**Consanguinous**: related by blood, either through the mother or the+**Consanguinity**: related by blood, either through the mother or the
 father. father.
  
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 ## Set sail for kinship ##  ## Set sail for kinship ## 
  
-W. H. R. Rivers is another "discoverer of kinship" in anthropology.+**[[:W. H. R. Rivers]]** is another "discoverer of kinship" in anthropology.
  
 Rivers collected information about cultures by going out on long Rivers collected information about cultures by going out on long
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 Take a piece of paper and write the term. What do you call: Take a piece of paper and write the term. What do you call:
  
-* What is your "native language"? 
 * Your **mother's sister's children**? * Your **mother's sister's children**?
 * Your **mother's brother's children**? * Your **mother's brother's children**?
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 * Your **father's sister's children**? * Your **father's sister's children**?
 * Your **father's brother's children**? * Your **father's brother's children**?
-* Your **father's children**? (besides yourself)?+* Your **father's children** (besides yourself)?
  
-You can share answers with neighbors. How many different terms do we use? +You can share answers with neighbors. What languages do people use to talk about these things? How many different terms do we use?  
 + 
 +## Auhelawa kin terms ##  
 + 
 +Among children of the same parent(s)  
 + 
 +* Male speaker, male addressee: tahi or tuwa 
 +* Male speaker, female addressee: nuhu 
 +* Female speaker, male addressee: nuhu 
 +* Female speaker, female addressee: tahi or tuwa 
 + 
 +Among grandchildren of the same grandparents:  
 + 
 +* The children of sisters call each other by the term ... 
 +* The children of brothers call each other by the term ... 
 +* The children of a brother and a sister call each other ...
  
 ## X and || ## ## X and || ##
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 ## The axiom of amity ## ## The axiom of amity ##
  
-How to define kinship has been very controversial, as we shall +Meyer Fortes:  
-see. Many anthropologists tend to implicitly gravitate toward one + 
-definition, though. It was formulated by **Meyer Fortes**, who writes:+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)  
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 + 
  
- [K]inship 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)  
  
  
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