ANTH 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Artificial Insemination, Kinship, Consanguinity
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Mother, father, brother, sister, grandparents, husbands, wives. People we eat with, live with, count on for support, and the people we promise to take care of when they are in need. Nuclear family: the kinship unit of mother, father, and children: we trace our connections through biological ancestors. We create kinship relations through marriage and remarriage. We choose families of people who are about us: many of us can imagine the perfect family , but for many of us, the experience of family is much more complicated. Examples: taken apart, reconstructed, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy. These continue to stretch our ideas of kinship and families by showing how human culture, through science and technology, is shaping biological relationships. Descent: one way that humans construct kinship groups is by tracking genealogical descent. In descent groups, primary relationships are with consanguineal relatives (blood relatives).
