ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Consanguinity, Bilateral Descent, Patrilineality
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Kinship - relationships that people have with one another through blood and marriage. It is also knowledge that insiders within a family have about who you are related to and how to interact with or behave around relatives. Kinship diagrams/charts - visual representation of who is related and offer clues about behaviour; contain emic knowledge but are an etic framework. Kinship diagrams start w one person and explain how everyone is related to them. Eskimo kinship system - connected to ego on same line = siblings; above them are parents. Suggestion of behaviour: strong immediate family living in one household (nuclear family) suggestive that wealth will be left within nuclear family. Siblings on line w ego; father and mother above. Mother"s side of family: brother = uncle (children as cousins); mother"s sister = mother (her children as siblings) Father"s side: father"s sister = aunt (children = cousins); father"s brother = father (children as siblings)