ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Liminality, Kinship, Dowry
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The study of kinship, including family composition, descent and marriage, has long been central to sociocultural anthropology. Franklin and mackinnon argue that the study of kinship is itself symbolic of the anthropological tradition . Ethnographic present use of the present tense to describe a culture, although the description may refer to situations that existed in the past. In 1968, david schneider was the first anthropologist to conclude that kinship, in north. America and elsewhere, is a cultural system, not a set of biological facts. We employ the language of blood, of love, and of solidarity strategically to determine whom we consider kin and whom we do not. North american reckon bilateral kinship a system in which individuals trace their descent through both parents (which isn"t true for n. a) Nuclear family the family group consisting of father, mother, and their biological or adopted children (the most important family grouping or north americans)
