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ANTH 1616: Family and Kinship in Africa

ANTH 1616: Family and Kinship in Africa. Spring 2010, Harvard University. KINSHIP IS A SOCIAL FACT. “ Social facts exist outside of individuals and are not reducible to psychological facts.

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ANTH 1616: Family and Kinship in Africa

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  1. ANTH 1616: Family andKinship in Africa Spring 2010, Harvard University

  2. KINSHIP IS A SOCIAL FACT. “Social facts exist outside of individuals and are not reducible to psychological facts. A great deal of social research is based on the assumption that people are influenced by social forces that emerge from the interaction of humans but that transcend individuals.”

  3. The Mamas and the Papas Alliance Theory vs. Descent Theory Matrilineal and Patrilineal Descent The Mother’s Brother (your uncle) Age Sets

  4. What makes a family? Kinship occurs when people give cultural recognition and cultural significance to biological facts of relatedness

  5. LINEAGE: The Search for Continental Kinship Blood is thicker than water. Even ocean water.

  6. Compared to U.S. Small Scale Patriarchal Very white Also weird.

  7. Koli vs. Sumo Modernity & Tradition Modernity vs. Tradition Modernity/Tradition Dualism

  8. The Changing African Family Nuclear Kinship

  9. Anthropological Understandings of the World Scheper-Hughes and Lock

  10. The Patrimonial State BIG MAN POLITICS: AFRICAN UNION 2002

  11. Les Feministas Mothernity: “Motherhood is a more powerful metaphor for the commonality of women’s experiences than sisterhood.”

  12. Kinship Problems in the Anthropology of Africa • Biological antecedents & political entitlements • Social changes emerging from modernizing passions • How religion mucks things up • Violence and rupture • Gender-Based Violence • Reproductive Health • State Construction and State Corruption • Citizenship, Legal Change, and Human Rights

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