Kinship: How Do You Relate? Culture
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Culture is… Kinship: How do you relate? Learned - not in our genes! Patterned, unconscious January 23, 2006 Shapes perceptions, behaviors AND what we think is NATURAL! Society vs. Culture Tool Kit Terms Culture is the “stuff” Ethnocentrism Society is the arena Cultural Relativism EMIC: INSIDE ETIC: OUTSIDE Culture is NOT Static Unchanging Firmly bounded Agreed upon by all practitioners 1 Culture is: Super-individual Super-organic Learned! A typical American Family An American Family Dad: Mike Mom: Carol Son: Greg Daughter: Cindy Son: Pete Daughter: Jan Son: Bobby Daughter: Cindy Can Cindy marry Bobby? Kinship is: Who takes care of Alice? Basic principle of social organization Primarily social, not biological Determines who you love Determines many of kinds of social relations Influences who you support (financial,emotional) Influences who you marry, who are your ancestors 2 Terms Descent Unilineal – From one side only – Matrilineal Kinship Terms -- e.g., “uncle” – Patrilineal Biological Kin Types -- e.g., “mother’s brother,” father’s brother” Fictive Kin Bilineal – From both sides Equivalent Kin Consanguines Ambilineal – From either side Affines Matrilineal Descent Patrilineal Descent 3 Eskimo Kinship Eskimo Kinship U A A UAF M U U A CC CCBMe S C C CC Hawaiian Kinship Sudanese Kinship 1 2 2 121 2 1 1 2 5 341 2 6 34 343Me 4 3 4 34 13 15 9117Me 8 10 12 14 16 Locality Focality Which line exhibits strongest influence. Who you live with Neolocality – in industrial and foraging Not of individual, but of general social societies pattern!!!! Virilocal Patrifocal Uxorilocal Matrifocal 4 The Natural Nuclear Family? Changes in US Family, Household 1970 1995 Married/kids 40% Married/kids 25% 3.1 person/household 2.6 person/household 20 % 5 or more 10 % 5 or more Single people 17% Single people 25% 56 mil families female 122 mil families female 12 mil families male 32 mil families male 44 % families no kids under 51 % families no kids under 18 at home 18 at home American Families Through T.V. Quiz 2 T/F Emic is the Outsider’s perspective. 50’s – Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best • The fact that a baby adopted from China can 60’s – The Courtship of Eddy’s Father • grow up American shows that culture is 70’s – Brady Bunch, Eight is Enough, Alice, super________? Happy Days, The Odd Couple, One Day at a Time • The American kinship system is called____? The social kin term in America for father’s 80’s – My Two Dads • brother’s wife is______? 90’s – Married with Children, Will and Grace • T/F In a matrilineal kin system, my father would 00’s – Queer Eye for Straight Guy, Friends, not be consider part of my family. “L” Word 5.