DOCSLIB.ORG

Download This PDF File

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Download This PDF File Cover’s comment Smile of a Stem Cell: A Dialogue between Science and Society The exhibition Smile of a Stem Cell comprises 54 pictures collected from scientists working in the research network ESTOOLS (www.estools.eu). Supported by the European Union's Sixth Framework Program, ESTOOLS investigated embryonic stem cell, science, ethics and law across 10 different Eu- ropean countries. Aiming at improving integration and coordination in the Euro- pean area, geographically dispersed research institutes shared their experience to foster development in both science and ethics. As part of the project, a large emphasis was placed on the production of outreach tools able to match and min- gle with different cultural and religious contexts. Scientists involved in the project selected their pictures following aesthetic crite- ria. The caption of each image is comprised of a fantasy title and a condensed scientific detail. Scientists looked at their everyday research from an external and unusual perspective. They imagined something beyond the meaning they attribute to pictures in their everyday laboratory activities: a cell or a fluorescent marker might become a fairy, an astronomical phenomenon or a mundane urban activity. The focus of the exhibition was to present science in a neutral way. Each picture is expression of a scientific activity and contributes to foster debate, promote enthusiasm and perplexity, though purposely avoiding influencing the observer from an ethical perspective. Smile of a Stem Cell tries to use art as a universal form of communication and – just like art does – it makes visible what the naked eye would not usually see, highlighting the role of interpretation. One of the aim of the exhibition was to attract the lay public to a scientific event. In these occasions, people often fear they will face complicated and incomprehensible scientific data, something bound to remain in the domain of few experts. Smile of a Stem Cell does not require any scientific background: whoever is interested or attracted by either science or art can appreciate it. Art and science cannot be the same thing but both work as lenses or mirrors to know more about the universe. The exhibition triggers the power of imagination and displaces the perspectives of observers making them aware of the need for interpretation, in an attempt to deal with the issue of visibility and to pave the way for public debate. Gianfranco Munizza (Project Manager at Cattaneo Lab) Cover Pictures are reproduced with permission from Estools’s photo exhibition “Smile of Stem Cell” (http://www.estools.eu). Tecnoscienza is a scientific journal focusing on the relationships between science, technology and society. The Journal is published twice a year with an open access and peer reviewed policy; it is managed by an Editorial Board with the supervision of an International Advisory Board. Tecnoscienza è una rivista scientifica che indaga i rapporti tra scienza, tecnolo- gia e società. La rivista è semestrale, open access e peer-reviewed; la rivista è gestita da un Comitato di Redazione, con la supervisione di un Comitato Scientifi- co Internazionale. Tecnoscienza by Tecnoscienza.net is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale-Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5 Italia License. Board Coordination International Advisory Board Attila Bruni Maria Carmela Agodi (Università di Trento) (Università di Napoli – IT) Paolo Magaudda Barbara Allen (Università di Padova) (Virginia Tech University – USA) Assunta Viteritti Mario Biagioli (Università di Roma La Sapienza) (University of California Davis – USA) Wiebe Bijker (Maastricht University – NL) Editorial Board Geoffrey Bowker (University of Pittsburgh – USA) Stefano Crabu Massimiano Bucchi (Università di Padova) (Università di Trento – IT) Claudio Coletta Barbara Czarniawska (Università di Trento) (Göteborg University – SE) Enrico Marchetti Steven Epstein (Università di Ferrara) (UC San Diego – USA) Alvise Mattozzi Silvia Gherardi (Libera Università di Bolzano) (Università di Trento – IT) Francesca Musiani Luca Guzzetti (MINES ParisTech – FR) (Università di Genova – IT) Laura Lucia Parolin Christine Hine (Università di Milano Bicocca) (University of Surrey – UK) Annalisa Pelizza Alessandro Mongili (University of Twente – NL) (Università di Padova – IT) Giuseppina Pellegrino Michela Nacci (Università della Calabria) (Università dell’Aquila – IT) Barbara Pentimalli Federico Neresini (Università di Roma La Sapienza) (Università di Padova – IT) Manuela Perrotta Trevor Pinch (Norwegian University of (Cornell University – USA) Science and Technology – NO) Lucy Suchman Tiziana Piccioni (Lancaster University – UK) (IULM Milano) Paolo Volontè (Politecnico di Milano – IT) Tecnoscienza is promoted by STS Italia (www.stsitalia.org) Società Italiana di Studi sulla Scienza e la Tecnologia Tecnoscienza c/o STS Italia Dip. FISPPA, Via Cesarotti, 10-12, 35100 – Padova – Italy www.tecnoscienza.net – [email protected] – ISSN 2038-346 Table of Contents TECNOSCiENZA Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies Vol. 4, Nr. 1, June 2013 Special Issue: Re-conceiving Life in the Labs: The Emerging Meanings of Cells in the Italian Reproductive Biomedicine and Beyond Cover Smile of a Stem Cell Editors’ Note p. 5 Guest Editor’s Introduction Manuela Perrotta Creating Human Life Itself. The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion p. 7 Lecture Sarah Franklin Embryo Watching. How IVF Has Remade Biology p. 23 Essays Patrick Hanafin Law, Biopolitics and Reproductive Citizenship. The Case of Assisted Reproduction in Italy p. 45 Alessandra Gribaldo Substances, Knowledge, Gaze. The Bio-aesthetics of Reproductive Technology in a Sicilian Fertility Clinic p. 69 Tecnoscienza - 4 (1) 2 Giulia Zanini Neither Gametes nor Children. Italian Prospective Parents and the Variable Meaning of Donor Embryos p. 87 Lorenzo Beltrame ‘Sidestepping the Embryo’. The Cultural Meaning and Political Uses of Ethical Stem Cells p. 111 Conversations Laura Lucia Parolin, Ingrid Metzler and Alexander Schuster (Not) Making ‘Hexternologous’ Fertilization. The Italian ART Law and its Paradoxes p. 133 Elena Cattaneo, Giuseppe Testa and Assunta Viteritti The Italian Pathways of Stem Cells p. 145 Cartography Katarina Prpić STS in a (Post)Socialist Context. Science and Technology Studies in Croatia p. 165 Book Reviews M. T. Schäfer Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transform Cultural Production, by Claudio Coletta R. Abadie The Professional Guinea Pig. Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subject, by Stefano Crabu E. B. Silva Technology, Culture, Family. Influences on Home Life, by Michela Cozza A. Rudinow Saetnan, H. Mork Lomell and S. Hammer (Eds.) The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society, by Orazio Giancola 3 S. Houdart and O. Thiery (Eds.) Human and Non-Human: How to Repopulate Social Science, by Anne-Sophie Godfroy A. Cannellotto and E. Luchtenberg (Eds.) Medicalizacioń y sociedad: lecturas criticaś sobre la construccioń social de enfermedades, by Roberto Lusardi H. Nowotny and G. Testa Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in The Molecular Age, by Federico Neresini C. Méadel Quantifier le public. Histoire des mesures d’audience de la radio et de la télévision, by Paola Pallavicini D. Kaiser How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, by Assunta Viteritti Tecnoscienza - 4 (1) 4 Editors’ Note Three years after the release of its first issue, Tecnoscienza looks at it- self in the mirror, and starts a new three-year cycle with some notable accomplishments and a few novelties. In recent years the journal has gained great visibility at both national and international level (it currently has about 1,500 registered users and an average of 750 downloads upon the release of each new issue), estab- lishing itself as the only Italian academic journal specifically devoted to social studies of science and technology, as well as one of the only one coming from a southern European country. At a national level, this achievement has also been symbolically acknowledged by the awarding of Premio Filosofico Castiglioncello, a prize awarded last year to Tecnoscienza as the “best online academic journal in 2012”. The Journal has also strengthened and consolidated its position in the international debate, thanks to the publication of original materials in English and its ability to carve out for itself an increasingly central role in the international academic community (see for example the special issue dedicated to the 2010 EASST conference: http://www.tecnoscienza.net/ index.php/tsj/issue/view/18). The reputation of Tecnoscienza has also been enhanced by the contributions included in the Cartography section, which have so far focused on the STS debate in several European coun- tries (i.e. Spain, Germany, Norway and Croatia) and the review section, which includes in-depth analyses (in English) of STS books written in other languages. In the perspective of a more incisive positioning of the Journal both nationally and internationally, we have implemented various actions in preparation for the next three years, aimed at enhancing Tecnoscienza’s institutional recognition and reputation. We have recently participated in the processes of accreditation and evaluation promoted by Italian aca- demic and scientific institutions, having been included by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research (ANVUR) in the list of scientific journals. Moreover, Tecnoscienza has also been selected
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Lineal Kinship Organization in Cross-Specific Perspective
    Lineal kinship organization in cross-specific perspective Laura Fortunato Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology University of Oxford 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK [email protected] +44 (0)1865 284971 Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Road Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA Published as: Fortunato, L. (2019). Lineal kinship organization in cross-specific perspective. Philo- sophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1780):20190005. http: //dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0005, The article is part of the theme issue \The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals". http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb/374/1780. 1 Contents 1 Introduction 4 2 Kinship vs. descent 5 3 Lineal kinship in cross-specific perspective 8 4 Lineal kinship in cross-cultural perspective 12 4.1 A cross-cultural example: the association between descent and residence . 13 4.2 Reframing lineal kinship organization as lineal biases in kin investment . 19 5 Conclusion 21 References 23 2 Abstract I draw on insights from anthropology to outline a framework for the study of kinship systems that applies across animal species with biparental sexual reproduction. In particular, I define lineal kinship organization as a social system that emphasizes interactions among lineally related kin | that is, individuals related through females only, if the emphasis is towards matrilineal kin, and individuals related through males only, if the emphasis is towards patrilineal kin. In a given population, the emphasis may be expressed in one or more social domains, corresponding to pathways for the transmission of different resources across generations (e.g.
    [Show full text]
  • 3 Franklin TS 4-1(M)
    Lecture Embryo Watching How IVF Has Remade Biology Sarah Franklin University of Cambridge Abstract In addition to being one of the most iconic of the new reproduc- tive technologies introduced in the late twentieth century, in vitro fertiliza- tion is also a technology of representation – a looking glass into conception, a window onto early human development, and as such a new form of public spectacle. Still a rapidly expanding global biomedical service sector, IVF tech- nology is also the source of new images of human origins, and thus offers a new visual grammar of coming into being. This lecture explores these con- nections, and argues that the micromanipulation imagery associated with IVF, and now a routine feature of news coverage and popular debate of NRTs, al- so introduces a new connection between cells and tools, thus returning us to one of the oldest sociological questions – the question concerning technolo- gy. Moving between IVF as a technology of reproduction, and a visual tech- nology, enables us to revisit a series of broad sociological questions concern- ing technology, reproduction, genealogy and the future of biological control from the unique perspective offered by the conversion of the human embryo into both a tool and a lens. Keywords IVF; micromanipulation; human embryo; biological control; visual culture. Corresponding author Sarah Franklin, Department of Sociology, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, United Kingdom - Email: [email protected] 1. Introduction Although its first human offspring were not born until the1970s, in vitro fertilization is now at least a century old, and is itself the product of many generations of accumulated scientific expertise.
    [Show full text]
  • Family, Kinship, and Descent
    Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Class 19 Family, kinship, and descent Copyright Bruce Owen 2011 − So, we have seen that gender identity is socially constructed − that leads us naturally to marriage and sex − which then leads us to descent − descent : rules to identify and categorize ancestors and offspring − which leads us to kinship − kinship : rules to categorize and interact with ancestors, offspring, and other relatives (our kin ) − which in turn plays a big role in creating personal identities and structuring marriages and families − remember that “culture is integrated” and “culture can be understood as a system” − each of these parts (identity, gender, marriage, descent, kinship) is profoundly shaped by the others, and affects the others in turn − you can’t really understand any one in isolation − each only makes full sense in the context of all the rest − Marriage, family, and kinship are… socially constructed − meaning: − many forms are possible − nature does not define how marriages and families are set up − cultures develop any of many possible solutions − so the forms of marriage, families, and how we name and handle relations with other kin are variable from one culture to the next − in our culture, we think of (or construct) marriage as being − a personal choice made by two people − mostly having to do with romantic love, sex, and friendship − this reflects our egocentric concept of personhood in general − many, if not most, societies see marriage very differently − as a relationship established between two groups
    [Show full text]
  • 02 Social Cultural Anthropology Module : 16 Kinship: Definition and Approaches
    Paper No. : 02 Social Cultural Anthropology Module : 16 Kinship: Definition and Approaches Development Team Principal Investigator Prof. Anup Kumar Kapoor Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi Paper Coordinator Prof. Sabita, Department of Anthropology, Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar Gulsan Khatoon, Department of Anthropology, Utkal Content Writer University, Bhubaneswar Prof. A.K. Sinha, Department of Anthropology, Content Reviewer P anjab University, Chandigarh 1 Social Cultural Anthropology Anthropology Kinship: Definition and Approaches Description of Module Subject Name Anthropology Paper Name 02 Social Cultural Anthropology Module Name/Title Kinship: Definition and Approaches Module Id 16 2 Social Cultural Anthropology Anthropology Kinship: Definition and Approaches Contents Introduction 1. History of kinship study 2. Meaning and definition 3. Kinship approaches 3.1 Structure of Kinship Roles 3.2 Kinship Terminologies 3.3 Kinship Usages 3.4 Rules of Descent 3.5 Descent Group 4. Uniqueness of kinship in anthropology Anthropological symbols for kin Summary Learning outcomes After studying this module: You shall be able to understand the discovery, history and structure of kinship system You will learn the nature of kinship and the genealogical basis of society You will learn about the different approaches of kinship, kinship terminology, kinship usages, rules of descent, etc You will be able to understand the importance of kinship while conducting fieldwork. The primary objective of this module is: 3 Social Cultural Anthropology Anthropology Kinship: Definition and Approaches To give a basic understanding to the students about Kinship, its history of origin, and subject matter It also attempts to provide an informative background about the different Kinship approaches. 4 Social Cultural Anthropology Anthropology Kinship: Definition and Approaches INTRODUCTION The word “kinship” has been used to mean several things-indeed; the situation is so complex that it is necessary to simplify it in order to study it.
    [Show full text]
  • Kinship Structures and Social Cohesion
    Kinship structures and social cohesion PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS Kinship networks in modern society Are they relevant? Contemporary society presents new problems Modern systems considered ‘complex’; ‘open’ not ‘closed’. Yet forms of structural endogamy or cohesion prevail; connections are more than expected in random marriage market Does not form closed social compartments, but open structures Kinship and social networks – anthropological/sociological questions, ideas crucial What is kinship? The field of blood and marriage relationships and those recognized as ‘kinship’ relations Adoptive kinship; step relations; effective kinship; practical kinship; important relations; fictive kinship Preliminary uses of kinship network study Marriage and conjugal ties Group placement and social identity Inheritance and succession Resource distribution Authority and power Migration patterns Support systems (natural crisis, conflict, poverty, dislocation) Genealogies The chain of kinship relations across generations is mapped onto a genealogical grid The grid is a schemata or a skeleton on which can be hung Life histories and group histories Resource histories Studies of succession and inheritance The formation of closed or open systems of affinity and allocation The overlap of kinship and other ties to form strong/weak networks The basic symbols of kinship Descent Patrilineal Descent Trace descent in one line only. Ego belongs to either father’s or mother’s family. Matrilineal Descent Trace descent from male and female ancestors. Children
    [Show full text]
  • Kinship Terminology from a Cultural Perspective: Japanese Versus? Hungarian
    日本語とジェンダー 第14号（2014) 【研究例会 IN ハンガリー 発表】 Kinship Terminology from a Cultural Perspective: Japanese versus? Hungarian Judit Hidasi This article is part of a longer study in progress on the relationship of language use and society with regards to kinship terminology. The article first gives some frame to the study by briefly introducing the concept of kinship, next different descent patterns in societies to be followed by categorization patterns of kinship terminology (Morgan) in Hungarian and Japanese. It is assumed that kin terms are valuable clues to the nature of a kinship system in a society as well as to the social statuses and roles of kinsmen, of the roles of men and women. Changes in kinship terminology also reflect to a certain extent changes of a given society. What is kinship? Kinship refers to the culturally defined relationships between individuals who are commonly thought of as having family ties. All societies use kinship as a basis for forming social groups and for classifying people. However, there is a great amount of variability in kinship rules and patterns around the world. In order to understand social interaction, attitudes, and motivations in most societies, it is essential to know how their kinship systems function. In many societies, kinship is the most important social organizing principle along with gender and age. Kinship also provides a means for transmitting status and property from generation to generation. It is not a mere coincidence that inheritance rights usually are based on the closeness of kinship links. Kinship connections are based on two categories of bonds: those created by marriage (affinal relatives: husband, wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law) and those that result from descent (consanguinal that is ’blood’ relatives: mother, father, grandparents, children, grandchildren, uncles, aunts and cousins), which is a socially recognized link between ancestors and descendants.
    [Show full text]
  • Kinship and Descent
    Marital Residence & Kinship Chapter 10 Forms of Human Kinship Basis of group formations:Gessellschaft Occupation Kinship Social Class Age Ethnic Affiliation Education/ Religion, etc. Forms of Human Kinship- Cont’d Geminshaft- (Small scale, nonindustrial) What is the basis of group membership? Kinship Marital Residence Patterns Patrilocal Residence: …the married couple lives with or near the relatives of the husband’s father, (parents). (67% of all societies). Matrilocal Residence: …the married couple lives with or near the relatives of the wife. (15% of all societies). Residence Patterns: Cont’d Bilocal (Ambilocal) Residence: …the married couple has a choice of living with either the relatives of the wife or the relatives of the husband. (7% of all societies). Residence Patterns: Cont’d Avunculocal Residence: …the son or daughter normally leave, but the son and his wife settle with or near his mother’s brother. …the married couple lives with or near the husband’s mother’s brother. (4% of all societies). Residence Patterns: Cont’d Neolocal Residence: …the married couple forms an independent place or residence away from the relatives of either spouse. (5% of all societies). Kinship Kinship- …refers to relationships that are based on blood and/or marriage. Types: Consanguineal Relatives- Affinal Relatives- Fictive Kinship- Functions of Kinship Vertical Function- …a kinship system provides social continuity by binding together a number of successive generations. Horizontal Function- …solidifies or ties together, across a single generation through the process of marriage. Formation of Descent Groups Descent- …refers to the rules a culture uses to establish affiliations with one’s parents. Descent Group- …any publicly recognized social entity such that being a lineal descendant of a particular real or mythical ancestor is a criterion of membership.
    [Show full text]
  • The Evolution of Female-Biased Kinship in Humans and Other Mammals Royalsocietypublishing.Org/Journal/Rstb Siobha´N M
    The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb Siobha´n M. Mattison1, Mary K. Shenk2, Melissa Emery Thompson1, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder3 and Laura Fortunato4,5 1Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA Preface 2Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA 3Department of Anthropology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA 4 Cite this article: Mattison SM, Shenk MK, Department of Anthropology, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 4AU, UK 5Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA Thompson ME, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Fortunato L. 2019 The evolution of female-biased kinship SMM, 0000-0002-9537-5459; MKS, 0000-0003-2002-1469; MET, 0000-0003-2451-6397; MB, 0000-0003-1117-5984;LF,0000-0001-8546-9497 in humans and other mammals. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 374: 20190007. Female-biased kinship (FBK) arises in numerous species and in diverse http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0007 human cultures, suggesting deep evolutionary roots to female-oriented social structures. The significance of FBK has been debated for centuries in Accepted: 3 June 2019 human studies, where it has often been described as difficult to explain. At the same time, studies of FBK in non-human animals point to its apparent benefits for longevity, social complexity and reproduction. Are female- One contribution of 17 to a theme issue ‘The biased social systems evolutionarily stable and under what circumstances? evolution of female-biased kinship in humans What are the causes and consequences of FBK? The purpose of this theme and other mammals’.
    [Show full text]
  • An Evolutionary Sketch of Russian Kinship. INSTITUTION American Ethnological Society, Washington, D.C
    DOCUMENT RESUME ED 041 494 FL 001 445 AUTHOR Friedrich, Paul TITLE An Evolutionary Sketch of Russian Kinship. INSTITUTION American Ethnological Society, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 63 NOTE 26p.; From Symposiu on Language and Culture: Proceedings of the 1962 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, p1-26 EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.25 HC-$1.40 DESCRIPTORS Anthropology, Behavioral Science Research, Behavior Patterns, *Cultural Factors, *Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnic Relations, Family (Sociological Unit), *Family Relationship, Family Structure, Ind(' European Languages, Language Patterns, Linguistics, Personal Relationship, *Russian, Semantics, *Slavic Languages, Sociolinguistics, Synchronic Linguistics ABSTRACT This paper presents a preliminary sketch of the evolution of Russian kinship from the reconstructed stages of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Slavic, through old and nineteenth century Russian, to the trends of contemporary modern Russian. Linguistic, historical, and anthropological approaches have been combined. The kinship terminology is viewed as mediating through time between one aspect of linguistic structure and one social aspect of cultural organization. The conclusions deal with a point of method, suAa up the evolution of Russian kinship in relation togeneral evolution and taxonomy, and suggest new fields for the present approach. (Author/RL) otkor Veit ve:e4 U.S. DEPA/100/111 OF HEALTH, EDUCATION I WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION 4. THIS DOCUMENTHAS BEEN /IMPUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED PERSON OR OMNI/AMON FROM THE ORI6INATIN6 IL POINTS Of VIEWOR STATED DO POTPRESSOR REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE POSITION OR POLICY, OF EDUCATION ecalunt4useeedeenyd41 apyruid, Medantestagtm) Ott no 5.I. VOL UT IONA RY SKLTcfiOFPT= KINSHIP Paul Friedrich IN THE FOLLOWING paper is presented a preliminary sketch of the evolution of Russian kin- ship from the reconstructed stages of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and Proto-Slavic, through the historically attested old and nineteenth-century Russian, to the trends of contempo- rary modern Russian.
    [Show full text]
  • Perspectives: an Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology Edited by Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle De González, and Thomas Mcilwraith
    Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology Edited by Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle de González, and Thomas McIlwraith 2017 American Anthropological Association American Anthropological Association 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 1301 Arlington, VA 22201 ISBN: 978–1-931303–55–2 http://www.perspectivesanthro.org This book is a project of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) http://sacc.americananthro.org/ and our parent organization, the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Please refer to the website for a complete table of contents and more information about the book. Family and Marriage Mary Kay Gilliland, Central Arizona College [email protected] LEARNING OBJECTIVES Family and marriage may at first seem to be famil- • Describe the variety of human iar topics. Families exist in all societies and they are part families cross-culturally with of what makes us human. However, societies around the examples. world demonstrate tremendous variation in cultural under- • Discuss variation in parental rights standings of family and marriage. Ideas about how people and responsibilities. are related to each other, what kind of marriage would be • Distinguish between matrilineal, ideal, when people should have children, who should care patrilineal, and bilateral kinship for children, and many other family related matters differ systems. cross-culturally. While the function of families is to fulfill • Identify the differences between basic human needs such as providing for children, defin- kinship establish by blood and kinship ing parental roles, regulating sexuality, and passing property established by marriage. and knowledge between generations, there are many vari- • Evaluate the differences between ations or patterns of family life that can meet these needs.
    [Show full text]
  • African Family and Kinship Brian Siegel
    Furman University Furman University Scholar Exchange Anthropology Publications Anthropology 1996 African Family and Kinship Brian Siegel Originally published in Understanding Contemporary Africa, 2nd edition, edited by April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon. Copyright © 1996 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher. www.rienner.com Recommended Citation Siegel, Brian, "African Family and Kinship" (1996). Anthropology Publications. Paper 3. http://scholarexchange.furman.edu/ant-publications/3 This Book Chapter is made available online by Anthropology, part of the Furman University Scholar Exchange (FUSE). It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthropology Publications by an authorized FUSE administrator. For terms of use, please refer to the FUSE Institutional Repository Guidelines. For more information, please contact [email protected]. African Family and Kinship Brian Siegel (from "Family and Kinship," pp. 221-47 in April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon, eds., Understanding Contemporary Africa, 2nd ed., Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996) “Don’t be fooled,” advised a senior Zambian bureaucrat. “Here in Africa, the family is first. This will never change.” I was on my way to study the labor strategies of Copperbelt market gardeners, and I had told him my plans to consult the local officials charged with “developing” the “static rural masses.” One should not, he advised, accept such programs at face value, for government offices and officials would never inspire the same loyalties as those of family ties. The significance of such ties was dramatically illustrated in 1983, when 1.3 million migrant workers from Ghana—nearly one-tenth of all Ghanaians—were suddenly deported from Nigeria.
    [Show full text]
  • Course No. 102..Sociology of Family, Marriage and Kinship
    Directorate of Distance Education UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU JAMMU STUDY MATERIAL For M.A. SOCIOLOGY (SEMESTER-IST) TITLE : SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILY, KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE SESSION 2020 COURSE No. SOC-C-102 LESSON No. 1-20 Course Co-ordinator : Teacher Incharge : PROF. ABHA CHAUHAN DR. NEHA VIJ H.O.D., Deptt. of Sociology P. G. Sociology University of Jammu. University of Jammu. http:/wwwdistanceeducationju.in Printed and Published on behalf of the Directorate of Distance Education, University of Jammu, Jammu by the Director, DDE University of Jammu, Jammu. 1 SCRIPT WRITERS * Prof. B.K. Nagla * Prof. Madhu Nagla * Prof. J.R. Panda * Prof. Ashish Saxena * Prof. Abha Chauhan * Prof. Vishav Raksha * Prof. Neeru Sharma * Dr. Hema Gandotra * Dr. Neharica Subhash * Dr. Nisha Sharma * Dr. Kuljeet Singh © Directorate of Distance Education, University of Jammu, Jammu 2020 • All rights reserved . No part of this work may be reproduced in any form, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission in writing from the DDE , University of Jammu. • The script writer shall be responsible for the lesson/script submitted to the DDE and any plagiarism shall be his / her entire responsibility. Printed by : Sushil Printers /2020/650 2 Syllabus of Sociology M.A. lst Semester To be held in the year Dec. 2019, 2020 & 2021 (Non-CBCS) Course No. SOC-C-102 Title : Sociology of Family, Kinship and Marriage Credits : 6 Max. Marks : 100 Duration of examination : 2 & 1/2 hrs. (a) Semester examination : 80 (b) Sessional assessment : 20 Objectives : To demonstrate to the students the universally acknowledged social importance of Family and Kinship structure and familiarize them with the rich diversity in the types of networks of relationship created by genealogical links of marriage and other social ties.
    [Show full text]