| Description |
Introduces a key area of research in anthropology: the study of kinship--the ways in which peoples of different cultures marry and relate within and outside the family and the means by which one generation relates to one another within/outside the family. Course opens with a discussion of what kinship means to the social anthropologist as distinct from the biologist, and considers different possible approaches of the subject within social anthropology itself. Course also examines how recent work on gender, person and the body have challenged and modified earlier assumptions about descent, succession, marriage and familial alliances. |