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San1 Kinship
Questions
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Anthropologists tend to concentrate on the positive aspects of kinship rather than the negative aspects. Is this true and if so why might it be?
Key figures
Lewis Henry Morgan
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descriptive kinship = different names for different roles, depending on where people sit in the kinship structure
studying Iroquai, determined that classifcatory kinship comes from time of group marriage- thesis that societies progess through a series of stages from primitive to one based on monogamy in which biological paternity could be fairly certain- 7 stages of cultural evolution
Radcliffe-Brown
functionalist, kinship and marriage to mark differences in relationships
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Evans-Pritchard
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system of patrilineal segmentary lineage allows groups to organise themselves in time of feud, widening in scope and association
EP and MF championed study of kinship to show how stateless socities could maintain order and function and how descent groups maintained structure over time
Myers-Fortes
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Good 1991: 'a Tallensi man's rights and responsibilities are determined by his position in his patrilineage'
parent-child relations ordered political realm but in domestic realm encountered 'intimacy of interpersonal relations'
Claude Levi-Strauss
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unconvinced that descent was the most sig. aspect of kinship- marriage served as basis of societal organisation in basic societies?
incest taboo in every society, first expression of culture, primary act of classification that dedicated who you could marry
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direct exchange = two lineages exchanging women for marriage
indirect exchange = groups can exchange w/ diff. groups, establishes 'wife givers' and 'wife receivers'
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Areas of Kinship
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'kinning' also in gay communities, non-biological families
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