Kinship (References) Flashcards
Nuclear family is most distinctive and fundamental; it is founded on the concepts of marriage and parentage. Is specific and applied to other social institutions
Barnes, 1967
Family universal because of child bearing and nurturing, queired for distinction between household and family
Malinowski
Elementary family, distinction between kin group, household and family
Radcliffe-Brown
Feminist viewpoint, complicated to split family and household. Indigenenous concepts do not align
Henrietta Moore
Kinship between poles of terminologies and rules - and - actual individual relationships
Godelier, 1998
Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act - from Christian rules of ‘one-flesh’ , Culture in Law
Simpson, 2006; Anderson 1982
The Warnock Report (1984) - examine social, ethical and legal implications of developments in human assisted reproductions
Riviere, 1985
Biology and nature not clear cut relations; Three examples..
Carster, 2003
Distinction between Affinity and consanguinity, assumptions that blood is more authentic
Simpson, 2006
Science can’t make decisions, should loosen cultural blinkers
Riviere, 1985