AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hope Chest, Bilateral Descent, Ethnocentrism
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Chapter 5: kinship- constructing families and social relationships family relations in. The author mentions that in 1973 documentary a looking at the life of the american family, it was much like every family entertaining because of the soap opera quality and different characters. The structural elements are common to every family while the details and the characters might be unique. Obama was motivated by his daughter"s acceptance of gay people and their families to see gay marriage as an okay thing. Popular culture gives us various kinds of portrayals of families, which one is the real. The study of kinship has a long tradition in anthropology as if we want to understand people then we need to understand family. The original idea was that it was that kinship is an organizing principle in small- scale societies when there were no other institutions or formal structures to organize people for labour etc.
