ANTH 326 THE FAMILY IN CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Dr. Susan Vincent

Winter 2010 course website

Course Outline (includes essay assignment questions)

Course Assignment Resources   

• Anthropology Writing Resources
• Check sheet for reviewing your essay draft
• Some possible sources for the essay
• Sample test essay
• Exam study questions

Topic Outlines

• Introduction (Peletz)
• Marriage (Bossen)
• Arranged marriages and not marrying (Applbaum and Bourdieu)
• The gender of marriage partners (Sullivan and Epprecht)
• The number of partners (Falen, Levine & Silk, Sheff)
• Violence, divorce (Griffiths, Merry)
• Matriliny, patriliny, gender, generation (Peters, Zhang)
• What makes kin? (Carsten, Weismantel)
• New reproductive technologies (Ragoné, Inhorn)
• The state: fertility, population control (Feldman-Savelsberg et al., Krause and Marchesi)
• Adoption (Leinaweaver, Volkman)
• Incest (Hutchinson, Gilgun)

Handouts

• Basic kinship terms and conventions

Links

• kinship basics: University of Manitoba tutorial

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