Enculturation/ Socialization and the Life cycle o The main agents of SOCIALIZATION (enculturation)-family, school, peer groups, the mass media, and the work (particular attention to gender socialization) The main stages of life cycle identified as: 1) infancy; 2)childhood and adolescence, 3) young and mature adulthood, and 4) old age Anthropological notions of "social birth and“ social person” Social death vs. biological death
Enculturation/ Socialization and the Life Cycle The main agents of SOCIALIZATION (enculturation) – family, school, peer groups, the mass media, and the work (particular attention to gender socialization) . The main stages of life cycle identified as:1) infancy; 2)childhood and adolescence, 3) young and mature adulthood, and 4) old age Anthropological notions of “social birth” and “social person” Social death vs. biological death
Anthropology and the Study of Kinship practices o Kinship(family, marriage gender) forming the basis of the discipline, comparable to logic in philosophy and the nude in art
Anthropology and the Study of Kinship Practices Kinship (family, marriage, gender) forming the basis of the discipline; ‘comparable to logic in philosophy and the nude in art’
Kinship: a symbolic idiom that refers to biological ties which people use to organize their social lives Kinship and Fieldwork ex. degrees of“ relatedness” Kinship and biology Ex. mating vs. marriage: births vs descents: blood metaphor Kinship terms
Kinship: a symbolic idiom that refers to biological ties which people use to organize their social lives. - Kinship and Fieldwork ex. degrees of “relatedness” - Kinship and Biology Ex. mating vs. marriage; births vs. descents; blood metaphor - Kinship terms
Kingship and Kinship 人生如白驹过隙, 所以好富贵者,不过欲各积金钱,厚 自娱乐,使子孙无贫乏耳。卿等何 不释去兵权,出守大藩,择好便田 宅市之,为子孙立永久不可动之业 ,多置歌儿舞女,日夕饮酒相欢, 以终天年,朕且与卿等约为婚姻, 君臣之间两无猜疑,上下相安,不 亦善乎?
Kingship and Kinship 人生如白驹过隙, 所以好富贵者,不过欲各积金钱,厚 自娱乐,使子孙无贫乏耳。卿等何 不释去兵权,出守大藩,择好便田 宅市之,为子孙立永久不可动之业 ,多置歌儿舞女,日夕饮酒相欢, 以终天年,朕且与卿等约为婚姻, 君臣之间两无猜疑,上下相安,不 亦善乎?
Kinship Politics: Blood is thicker than water? NT OFT Barack
Kinship & Politics: Blood is thicker than water?
What is the family? o a definition of the family that avoids Western ethnocentrism see it as a group composed of a woman and her dependent children, with at least one adult man joined through marriage or blood relationship. 6. The family may take many forms ranging from a married couple with their children(conjugal family) as in North American society to a large group of several brothers and sisters with the sisters'children(consanguineal family) as in sw India among the Nayar(the Mosu people of sw China). The particular form taken by the family is related to particular social, historical, and ecological circumstances
What is the Family? A definition of the family that avoids Western ethnocentrism see it as a group composed of a woman and her dependent children, with at least one adult man joined through marriage or blood relationship. The family may take many forms ranging from a married couple with their children (conjugal family) as in North American society to a large group of several brothers and sisters with the sisters’ children (consanguineal family) as in sw India among the Nayar (the Mosu people of SW China). The particular form taken by the family is related to particular social, historical, and ecological circumstances