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ANTH 1616: Family andKinship in AfricaSpring 2010, Harvard University
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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.”
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The Mamas and
the Papas
•Alliance Theory vs. Descent Theory
•Matrilineal and Patrilineal Descent
•The Mother’s Brother (your uncle)
•Age Sets
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What makes a family?
Kinship occurs when people give cultural recognition and cultural significance to biological facts of relatedness
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LINEAGE: The Search for Continental Kinship
Blood is thicker than water. Even ocean water.
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Compared to U.S.
Small Scale
Patriarchal
Very white
Also weird.
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Koli vs. Sumo
•Modernity & Tradition
•Modernity vs. Tradition
•Modernity/Tradition Dualism
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The Changing African Family
Nuclear Kinship
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Anthropological Understandings of the
WorldScheper-Hughes and Lock
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The Patrimonial State
BIG MAN POLITICS: AFRICAN UNION 2002
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Les Feministas
Mothernity:
“Motherhood is a more powerful metaphor for the commonality of women’s
experiences than sisterhood.”
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Kinship Problems in the Anthropology of Africa
Biological antecedents & political entitlementsSocial changes emerging from modernizing
passionsHow religion mucks things upViolence and ruptureGender-Based ViolenceReproductive HealthState Construction and State CorruptionCitizenship, Legal Change, and Human Rights