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dent? How does this work in anthropology? ## Kinship live ## http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/... hows popular? What do audiences see in them? ## Kinship as a classification system ## Henry Maine: stat... hat British social anthropology was obsessed with kinship as a structure of society. In a 1930 paper in t... he effort needed to master the bastard algebra of kinship is really worth while. [...] > After all, kinshi

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~~DECKJS~~ # Some history # ## A history of kinship ## Ryan Schram ANTH 2654: Forms of Families July ... s/ ## Recap ## There's lots of reasons to study kinship: * It raises questions about human nature. * It... t questions do you want answered? ## He invented kinship ## Many ideas about kinship in anthropology trace back to the work of **[[:Lewis Henry Morgan]]**. Morgan

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~~DECKJS~~ # Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols # ## Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols ## Ryan Schram A... es of conception are a symbolic representation of kinship * Metaphors we live by - Lakoff and Johnson's c... w to do things with words - Carsten argues that kinship is created through symbolic action - Semantic a

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~~DECKJS~~ # Symbolizing kinship # ## Symbolizing kinship ## Ryan Schram ANTH 2654: Forms of Families 27 August 2015 Available at htt... w kind of relativism * There is no such thing as kinship. - Domestic and public are social facts, not re

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~~DECKJS~~ # Feminist anthropology and kinship # ## Feminist anthropology and kinship ## Ryan Schram ANTH 2654: Forms of Families 10 September 2015 ... men. - Anthropological theory assumed that male kinship statuses were more important, and hence male info

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nds of agency * The limits of performativity - 'Kinship is part of who you are' versus 'Kinship comes from what you do.' - Are these different cultural constructs, or two sides of the same coin? - You can performatively enact kinship, but you can't do it alone.

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approaches to marriage: - Top-down, holistic: Kinship as an exchange system (Levi-Strauss 1969) - Ind... rauss, Claude. 1969. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston: Beacon Press. Lowie, Robert Harry. 2004

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~~DECKJS~~ # Feminist anthropology and kinship, II # ## Feminist anthropology and kinship, II ## Ryan Schram ANTH 2654: Forms of Families 17 Septembe

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~~DECKJS~~ # Belonging # ## Belonging: Kinship imagery and the nation-state in Europe and beyond ## Rya... nation * Finland as a nation * How constructs of kinship shape the construction of immigration, national i

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to the University of Sydney anthropology unit on kinship, Forms of Families. Forms of Families is typicall... es on. * Week 1 lecture: [[1|A brief history of kinship]]. * Week 2 lecture: [[2|Do we need families?]]

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g/2654/4 ## Lecture Outline ## ### Two views of kinship: top-down and bottom-up. ### ### Meyer Fortes an