ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fictive Kinship, Iroquois Kinship, Unilineality
30 Mar 2019
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Key terms/ names: ego, etic and emic perspectives, eskimo and iroquois kinship classification, matrilateral and partilateral kin, bilateral and unilineal descent, cross- cousins and parallel cousins, endogamy and exogamy, patrilineal or matrilineal descent, consanguine and affinal kin. Fictive kinship: brideprice, procreation as symbolic and paternity as cultural construct. Rites of passage: rituals that mark the transition from one life stage to another, can happen to individuals but also as a group, three stages, separation. Just in bunch of emotions: develop communitas, other people who are going through it at the same time or have already been through it. Learning from someone in the same stage or someone who"s been through it and works at an emotional level. Most important part of rites of passage. Integrated into society into your new stage/ status. Relatives and relations: introduction to society, language, and culture.
