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KinshipWhy have Kinship Rules?Kin TerminologyJu’hoansi KinshipANTY 101D 1st Edition Lecture 24Kinship-Who are your relatives?• How do you figure out who they are?-We have kinship rules?• We have someone telling us who our kinship are because there is a relationship• Rules on how to treat these people • Regulated marriage and sexual relations • Stable group to raise young• Division of labor • Rights and obligations; inheritance • Creates “family” Why have Kinship Rules?-Anthropological Definition • Network of relations where members have rights and obligations • Culturally determined and flexible • Basis of culture; creates society Kin terms encapsulate social structure of a culture 1-Kinship diagrams • Consanguine v. Affines (sex & generation) • Etic diagram with Emic terms -Etic: external to the culture • Mothers brother• objective-Emic: internal • uncle • Subjectively cultural terms Kin Terminology -“Iroquois System” • Mother’s sister= mother; Father’s brother= father • Parallel cousins: mother’s sister’s kids= brother/sister-“Hawaiian system”• Generational kin terms • Aunts/Uncles= mother/father; cousins= brother/sister -Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian • Relative age terms for siblings; Status -elder brother, younger brother —> only proper way to address them 2-important for status and inheritance -“Eskimo System”• Nuclear family focus• Uncle/aunt; niece/nephew; cousins Ju’hoansi Kinship-Ju Kinship Systems:• Kin terms= eskimo system • Naming & Names (30+ names) -not allowed to marrying someone who has the same name as your father or mother


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