A kinship system is a symbolic language (part 2)

A kinship system is a symbolic language (part 2)

Jadran Mimica

ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 (Week 8)

Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/1001/2020/3.2.2

Required readings

Francoise Zonabend “An Anthropological Perspective on Kinship and the Family,” in A History of the Family, Volume 1: Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds, ed. André Burguière et al., trans. Sarah Hanbury Tenison, Rosemary Morris, and Andrew Wilson (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1996), 8–68 For this week, focus on pp. 25–39, 47–52, 56–68, skim pp. 39–47, 52–55.

Supplemental readings

Claude Lévi-Strauss “The Family,” in The View from Afar, trans. Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss (London: Basil Blackwell, 1985), 39–62, https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/43296108.

Jadran’s lecture notes will be posted on Canvas

Notes and other material for Jadran’s lectures will be in this week’s topic page on the class Canvas site.

References

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. “The Family.” In The View from Afar, translated by Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss, 39–62. London: Basil Blackwell, 1985. https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/43296108.

Zonabend, Francoise. “An Anthropological Perspective on Kinship and the Family.” In A History of the Family, Volume 1: Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds, edited by André Burguière, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Martine Segalen, and Francoise Zonabend, translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison, Rosemary Morris, and Andrew Wilson, 8–68. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1996.

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