week 5: kinship

Question 1

status

Answer 1

culturally-designates position someone occupies in a particular setting

Question 2

role

Answer 2

the set of behaviours expected of a person who occupies a particular status

Question 3

descent

Answer 3

how people reckon their kinship
○ Patrilineal: through the father’s line
○ Matrilineal: through the mother’s line
Bilateral: through both lines

Question 4

kinship

Answer 4

• culturally recognized ties between members of a family
  
  • Inner knowledge about who your relatives are and how to interact with them
    blood (consanguineal), marriage (affinal), and chosen kin

Question 5

Patterns of descent in kinship

Answer 5

• Unilineal descent: descent group formed by people who believe they are related to each other by links made through a father or mother
  Bilateral descent: related to each other by connections made through their mothers and fathers equally

Question 6

positivism

Answer 6

○ Social world is orderly and patterned, governed by laws and rules
○ There is an objective reality and anthropologists work to document that reality
Real world can be measured, context is less important

Question 7

Phenomenology

Answer 7

○ Individuals attach their own meanings to their lives and actions
○ Individuals create their own social realities
Emphasizes the particular, the unique, contexts

Question 8

lineage

Answer 8

descent group composed of blood relatives who believe they can trace their descent from known ancestors

Question 9

clan

Answer 9

a descent group formed by members who believe they have a common ancestor, even if they cannot specify the genealogical links